On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > + if (dev->coherent_dma_mask < 0xffffffff)
> > + high = dev->coherent_dma_mask;
>
> With your alloc_pages_range this check can go away. I think only the dev
> == NULL check is needed with this scheme since it looks like there's no
> way (currently) for ISA devices to store their masks for later
> consultation by arch code?
This check is necessary to set up the correct high boundary for
alloc_page_range.
> > + if (high == -1L && low == 0L)
> > + return alloc_pages(gfp_flags, order);
>
> There's max_pfn, but on machines with large memory holes using it might not
> help much.
I found node_start_pfn and node_spanned_pages in the node structure. That
gives me the boundaries for a node and I think I can work with that.
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