Linuxppc-embedded Digest, Vol 35, Issue 33

[Siva Prasad]

It returns kernel virtual address. If you use this buffer space for DMA,
please use appropriate flags. You may use __pa(address) or
virt_to_phys() to convert virtual to physical.

- Siva


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:29:59 +0530
From: "suresh suresh" <sureshtang at gmail.com>
Subject: Kmalloc returns which address
To: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
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Hi,

I am porting MPC8280 driver from vxWorks to Linux.

I want know the address return by kmalloc function? is it physical
address
or kernel virtual address.

For Tx and Rx, hardware uses buffers, so I have to allocate buffers and
pass
the pointer to hardware. Can I pass the pointer returned kmalloc?  or  I
should convert it into physical address?

If it returns kernel virtual address, then how to convert into physical?

Thanks & Regards-
Suresh
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