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| author | Rusty Russell | 2007-07-26 19:41:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2007-07-26 20:35:17 +0200 |
| commit | f56a384e98aa81065038c4e16f39ed989ccae687 (patch) | |
| tree | 923bcaabd76a88351fe5e61370143350747a90c4 /drivers/lguest/io.c | |
| parent | lguest: documentation VI: Switcher (diff) | |
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lguest: documentation VII: FIXMEs
Documentation: The FIXMEs
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/lguest/io.c b/drivers/lguest/io.c index da288128e44f..ea68613b43f6 100644 --- a/drivers/lguest/io.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/io.c @@ -553,6 +553,16 @@ void release_all_dma(struct lguest *lg) up_read(&lg->mm->mmap_sem); } +/*M:007 We only return a single DMA buffer to the Launcher, but it would be + * more efficient to return a pointer to the entire array of DMA buffers, which + * it can cache and choose one whenever it wants. + * + * Currently the Launcher uses a write to /dev/lguest, and the return value is + * the address of the DMA structure with the interrupt number placed in + * dma->used_len. If we wanted to return the entire array, we need to return + * the address, array size and interrupt number: this seems to require an + * ioctl(). :*/ + /*L:320 This routine looks for a DMA buffer registered by the Guest on the * given key (using the BIND_DMA hypercall). */ unsigned long get_dma_buffer(struct lguest *lg, |