On Thu, Mar 02 2006, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Ju, Seokmann wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the 'scsi_cmnd' structure, there are two entries holding address
> > information for data to be transferred. One is 'request_buffer' and the
> > other one is 'buffer'.
> > In case of 'use_sg' is non-zero, those entries indicates the address of
> > the scatter-gather table.
> >
> > Is there way to get virtual address (so that the data could be accessed
> > by the driver) of the actual data in the case of 'use_sg' is non-zero?
> >
> > Any comments would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Seokmann
> > -
>
> There is a macro for this purpose. However, for experiments, in
> the kernel, you can add PAGE_OFFSET (0xC00000000) to get the virtual
> address. The macro is __va(a), its inverse is __pa(a).
>
> Careful. These things can change.
Bzzt no, this wont work if an iommu is involved. It also wont work if
the page doesn't have a virtual address mapping (think highmem).
--
Jens Axboe
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