[PATCH 2/5] [POWERPC] 8xx: generic 8xx code arch/powerpc port

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Fri Nov 17 17:49:27 EST 2006


On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:48:43AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I think those 2 are used for cases where they either have a non-linear
> mapping a-la Amiga/APUS or in cases where they try to get addresses of
> things in the vmalloc area no ?.

For vmalloc we should be using vmalloc_to_page and then page_to_phys,
but again, I'd prefer to see the actual user before making detailed
suggestions.




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