Re: sg_virt() returns 0 - sometimes

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Ramya Desai wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> As a part of my driver testing instead of using sg lists I am directly
> submitting the URB after merging all the sgs into a single URB buffer
> in usb-storage driver. While converting the sg address into virtual
> address (sg_virt(sg)) I am seeing 0, sometimes. Why am I seeing this
> return value?

If a page is located in high memory then it doesn't have a virtual 
address.  Therefore sg_virt() has to return 0.

> I have seen some comments about it, in usb_sg_init() function which is
> defined in driver/usb/message.c file. In this routine also, sg_virt()
> is used, however there is PageHighMem(sg_page(sg)) condition in there.
> 
> Should I disable the CONFIG_HIGHMEM in the kernel while building the
> kernel images?

Or you could simply boot with mem=900M on the kernel command line.

Alan Stern

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