Messages in this thread | | | From | "Sosnowski, Maciej" <> | Date | Fri, 29 May 2009 14:41:50 +0100 | Subject | RE: [PATCH v2 04/11] async_xor: permit callers to pass in a 'dma/page scribble' region |
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Dan Williams wrote: > async_xor() needs space to perform dma and page address conversions. In > most cases the code can simply reuse the struct page * array because the > size of the native pointer matches the size of a dma/page address. In > order to support archs where sizeof(dma_addr_t) is larger than > sizeof(struct page *), or to preserve the input parameters, we utilize a > memory region passed in by the caller. > > Since the code is now prepared to handle the case where it cannot > perform address conversions on the stack, we no longer need the > !HIGHMEM64G dependency in drivers/dma/Kconfig. > > [ Impact: don't clobber input buffers for address conversions ] > > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> > --- > crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- > drivers/dma/Kconfig | 2 + > 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
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