On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:30:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:19:54 -0800
> Sumant Patro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Preallocate memory for ioctl processing. This is to avoid situations
> > where ioctl fails for lack of memory (when system under heavy stress).
> > The memory pool will have 8*4K, 4*8K and 1*64K memory chunks
>
> mutter.
>
> I suspect all this horror is due to stupidity in the DMA API.
>
> pci_alloc_consistent() just goes and assumes GFP_ATOMIC, whereas
> the caller (megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl) would have been perfectly happy
> to use GFP_KERNEL.
>
> I bet this fixes it:
but it's ugly as hell, why there is a much more trivial fix for it:
simply use dma_alloc_coherent.
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