Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] MIPS: HIGHMEM DMA on noncoherent MIPS32 processors

[Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> It's this disabling of interrupts which I don't like.  It's easy to get
> around it by having one kmap type for each of process, softirq and
> interrupt context.

I am curious as to why ARM opted for the "pte push/pop" strategy
(kmap_high_l1_vipt()) instead of something along these lines?

Is there a reason why using 3 kmap types to solve the "interrupted
flush problem" would work for MIPS, but is not a good solution on ARM?

> The good news is that Peter Zijlstra has rewritten kmap to make the need
> for manually allocated kmap types go away and his patches are queued to
> be merged for 2.6.37.  So I'd like to put this patch on hold until after
> his patches are merged.

OK, I'll take a look at that.  Thanks for the pointer.

> Does your system have both highmem and cache aliases?

This system has HIGHMEM + SMP, no cache aliases.