Subject: [PATCH V3 3/4] dmaselftest: add memcpy selftest support functions

From: [email-masked] (Sinan Kaya)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:49:54 -0500

On 11/9/2015 8:48 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Sinan Kaya wrote:
>>>
>>> And why kmalloc anyway?  Why not leave it on the stack?
>>>
>>>      char src[] = "hello world";
>>>
>>> ?
>>
>> I need to call dma_map_single on this address to convert it to a DMA
>> address. That's why.
>
> And you can't do that with an object that's on the stack?
>

no, pasting from here.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

under 'What memory is DMA'able?'

This rule also means that you may use neither kernel image addresses
(items in data/text/bss segments), nor module image addresses, nor
stack addresses for DMA.

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Sinan Kaya
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