Hi Geert,
Am 24.05.2018 um 22:02 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>> I happen to have a few old kernel trees around that I can consult for
>> a rough history, and 2.4.30 still has the comment while 2.6.18 or
>> 2.6.19 lost it.
>
> Of course all historical git trees contain linear history, not the
Hi Michael,
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:39 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> wrote:
At first sight (and looking in full-history-linux git history), I see no
reason for the gap. I'd assume
Hi Geert,
see attached for the 2.4.30 version of kmap.c.
Cheers,
Michael
Am 23.05.2018 um 19:44 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Michael Schmitz
> wrote:
>> Am 22.05.2018 um 20:18 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>>>
Hi Geert,
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 7:44 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
wrote:
>>> At first sight (and looking in full-history-linux git history), I see no
>>> reason for the gap. I'd assume having a block with address and size aligned
>>> to 256 KiB (which the caller already takes
Hi Michael,
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Am 22.05.2018 um 20:18 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Michael Schmitz
>> wrote:
>>> Comment on whether the gap size should be considered in
Hi Geert,
Am 22.05.2018 um 20:18 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> On kernels with 020/030 support ...
>
>> get_io_area leaves an IO_SIZE gap between mappings which is added to
>> the vm_struct
Hi Michael,
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
On kernels with 020/030 support ...
> get_io_area leaves an IO_SIZE gap between mappings which is added to
> the vm_struct representing the mapping. __ioremap() uses the actual
> requested size (after
get_io_area leaves an IO_SIZE gap between mappings which is added to
the vm_struct representing the mapping. __ioremap() uses the actual
requested size (after alignment), while __iounmap() is passed the
size from the vm_struct.
On 020/030, early termination descriptors are used to set up