On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 10:00 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > > Going to ensure that we have a 31 bit (not 32 bit) physical address?
> >
> > No, unfortunately. Implementing kmalloc_mask() and kmalloc_dev() was
> > something I said I'd do ... about two years ago.
>
> Tell me more about these ideas.
Oh, it was this Kernel Summit presentation which discussed it
http://licensing.steeleye.com/support/papers/kernel_summit_iommu.pdf
The writeup of the session is here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/144100/
The idea was basically to match an allocation to a device mask. I was
going to do a generic implementation (which would probably kmalloc,
check the physaddr and fall back to GFP_DMA if we were unlucky) but
allow the architectures to override.
However, the majority of need (except for the aacraid like devices) was
solved by GFP_DMA32
James
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