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SubjectRe: Bug: Discontigmem virt_to_page() [Alpha,ARM,Mips64?]
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:10:00AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > You can trivially map the phys mem between 1G and 1G+256M to be in a
> > direct mapping between 3G+256M and 3G+512M, then you can put such 256M
> > at offset 1G into the ZONE_NORMAL of node-id 1 with discontigmem too.
> >
> > The constraints you have on the normal memory are only two:
> >
> > 1) direct mapping
> > 2) DMA
> >
> > so as far as the ram is capable of 32bit DMA with pci32 and it's mapped
> > in the direct mapping you can put it into the normal zone. There is no
> > difference at all between discontimem or nonlinear in this sense.
>
> Now imagine an 8 node system, with 4Gb of memory in each node.
> First 4Gb is in node 0, second 4Gb is in node 1, etc.
>
> Even with 64 bit DMA, the real problem is breaking the assumption
> that mem between 0 and 896Mb phys maps 1-1 onto kernel space.
> That's 90% of the difficulty of what Dan's doing anyway, as I
> see it.

You don't need any additional common code abstraction to make virtual
address 3G+256G to point to physical address 1G as in my example above,
after that you're free to put the physical ram between 1G and 1G+256M
into the zone normal of node 1 and the stuff should keep working but
with zone-normal spread in more than one node. You just have full
control on virt_to_page, pci_map_single, __va. Actually it may be as
well cleaner to just let the arch define page_address() when
discontigmem is enabled (instead of hacking on top of __va), that's a
few liner. (the only true limit you have is on the phys ram above 4G,
that cannot definitely go into zone-normal regardless if it belongs to a
direct mapping or not because of pci32 API)

Andrea
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