Re: [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - support for userspace apps using core driver

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 21:54 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:

> How about the case where one wants to map pages from
> dma_alloc_coherent() into userspace?

This is precisely our case, btw.  The pages in question are allocated
during fops->open (some during dev->probe).  mmap and nopage never
allocate anything.

>   It seems one should do
> get_page() in .nopage, and then the driver can do dma_free_coherent()
> when the vma is released.

If that were the case, I'm unclear on how I would do this.  Add a
vmops->close method along with the existing vmops->nopage handler?

	<b

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