Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
So far in our test scenario, we were unable to create
any memory allocation failure inside dma map api calls.
All these functions should have gfp_t flags passed to them.
why?
Otherwise you are locked into the use of GFP_ATOMIC.
all callers pretty much are either in irq context or with spinlocks
held. Good luck..... it's also called primarily from the PCI DMA API
which doesn't take a gfp_t argument in the first place...
so I'm not seeing the point.
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