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Re: [Xen-devel] Oops when modprobing ivtv outside of dom0


  • To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:20:51 -0400
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On 7/6/05, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think the ivtv driver is probably not calculating dma addresses in
> the way that xen requires. On native Linux, if you allocate a
> multi-page chunk of physical memory, you can pass the start address of
> that buffer to hardware and it can dma the entire buffer given just
> that address. In Xen, because we give guests 'pseudo-physical' memory,
> that physical buffer may not be really physically contiguous. So we
> need drivers to dma_alloc_coherent or pci_alloc_consistent the memory
> they will use for dma --- we modified those functions to ensure they
> return suitable contiguous physical memory.
> 
> Perhaps the developers may know where to look further.

Thanks very much for all your help Keir, I've posted to the IVTV-Devel
list and hopefully someone there can help me with the rest.

Dave

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