Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver | From | Bryan O'Sullivan <> | Date | Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:40:09 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:28 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> kmalloc may be backed by a "struct page", but the point is that it does > not honor the page _count_, and as such it is totally unsuitable for any > VM usage.
That's fine. We're not calling dma_free_coherent until after the page count goes back down to one (the driver is once again the only user). But this doesn't seem germane to what Nick brought up, anyway.
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