At 8:33 AM -0600 2001-09-27, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > > VIRT_ADDR = ioremap(BUS_ADDR); to map a section of PCI memory, and
>> > X_ADDR = virt_to_phys(VIRT_ADDR);
>>
>> i'd suggest to read Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt in any recent kernel
>> source, the bus_to_virt()/virt_to_phys() interface is obsolete and has
>> been replaced by the pci_alloc_*/pci_map_*/pci_free_*() dynamic
>> DMA-mapping API.
>
>...or, of course, _Linux_Device_Drivers_, Second Edition, available online
>at http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/index.html. The DMA chapter covers
>this API as well.
That chapter says, in small part,
>Based on this discussion, you might also want to map addresses
>returned by ioremap to user space. This mapping is easily
>accomplished because you can use remap_page_range directly, without
>implementing methods for virtual memory areas. In other words,
>remap_page_range is already usable for building new page tables that
>map I/O memory to user space
Are you suggesting that ioremap() objects can be passed to
remap_page_range()? How can that be valid?
Also, there's an html conversion error:
> if (offset >= _ _pa(high_memory) || (filp->f_flags & O_SYNC))
Looks like   got translated to  
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