Re: 2.6.22-rc6 bad page error

[Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> > > +	return __pci_alloc_consistent(dev, size, dma, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > 
> > I was going to ask you why that needs to be GFP_ATOMIC on Alpha.
> > But find you're following the example of asm-generic and others.
> > So really should be asking Sparc how it gets away with GFP_KERNEL.
> 
> According to DMA-mapping.txt GFP_ATOMIC is mandatory for
> pci_alloc_consistent() since it can be called from interrupt context.
> So sparc code is probably incorrect...

Hi Bill, we've veered away from the original topic, and are wondering
how the sparc32 pci_alloc_consistent() gets away with using GFP_KERNEL,
when GFP_ATOMIC seems to be required?

Hugh
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