Re: [PATCH 31/31] dma-mapping-common: skip kmemleak checks for page-less SG entries

2015-08-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:05:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [ Again, I'm responding to one random patch - this pattern was in other patches too. ] A question: do we actually expect to mix page-less and pageful SG entries in the same SG list? How does that happen? Both for DAX and

Re: RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing

2015-08-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:42:47PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: The support I have suggested and submitted for zone-less sections. (In my add_persistent_memory() patchset) Would work perfectly well and transparent for all such multimedia cases. (All hacks removed). In fact I have loaded pmem

Re: RFC: prepare for struct scatterlist entries without page backing

2015-08-13 Thread Boaz Harrosh
On 08/13/2015 05:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 03:42:47PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: The support I have suggested and submitted for zone-less sections. (In my add_persistent_memory() patchset) Would work perfectly well and transparent for all such multimedia cases.