Alex Dubov wrote:
> The patch looks ok.
>
> However, due to certain peculiarities with memorystick and xd I have to emulate a scatter-gather
> in software. Considering that this particular aspect of implementation is the same for all card
> types on this TI chip, it can be shared by tifm_sd driver as well. In this case highmem won't be
> needed to be avoided and kmap_atomic will come back (may be).
>
>
Fair enough. Just make sure you handle the big problem case (kmap only
maps a single page, not the entire sg entry).
> And, by the way, to what extent pagefault_enable/pagefault_disable calls are needed? They are
> present in k(u)map_atomic even for non-highmem pages/architectures.
>
>
They tell the page fault handler that it may not sleep on a page fault.
Currently it only has the behaviour of disabling preemption though. I'd
guess it is present for non-highmem so that things behave somewhat
similar for both the highmem and non-highmem cases.
Rgds
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