>> Does kmalloc always allocate pages that can be used in DMA?
AvdV> normally yes. HOWEVER....
I use sh4 cpu...
AvdV> ..it is nicer to use the DMA allocation API (which internally may fall
AvdV> back to kmalloc etc), while kmalloc may work, it can be quite slow in
AvdV> how it's made to work. So it's just nicer to just use the DMA memory
AvdV> allocators... (see Documentation/DMA-API.txt file for a description of
AvdV> this)
Thanks, I'll try it.
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