Re: [PATCH 00 of 14] swiotlb/x86: lay groundwork for xen dom0 useof swiotlb

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:17:54 -0600
Becky Bruce <beckyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Can you be more specific? What architecture is plan to use highmem
> > support in swiotlb?
> 
> 32-bit powerpc needs this support - I was actually about to push a  
> similar set of patches.  We have several processors that support 36  
> bits of physical address space and do not have any iommu capability.   
> The rest of the kernel support for those processors is now in place,  
> so swiotlb is the last piece of the puzzle for that to be fully  
> functional.  I need to take a closer look at this series to see  
> exactly what it's doing and how it differs from what I've been testing.

Ah, thanks,

Then I accept that highmem support in lib/swiotbl.c is generically
useful and we have to live with the ugly complication due to it.
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