From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
svens@stackframe.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: swiotlb_alloc_coherent: allocated memory is out of range for device
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081023101557.GA30302@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hfxmnjzg5.wl%tiwai@suse.de>
* Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:22:09 +0200,
> I wrote:
> >
> > > The current dma_alloc_coherent (asm-x86/dma-mapping.h) handles the gfp
> > > flags in the exact same way as the old dma_alloc_coherent
> > > (pci-dma.c). Neither sets GFP_DMA even if coherent_dma_mask is
> > > 24bits. The old code is fine because of the GFP_DMA retry
> > > mechanism. But if coherent_dma_mask is 24bits, there is no point to go
> > > into the GFP_DMA retry mechanism. We should use GFP_DMA in the first
> > > place.
> > >
> > > How about the following patch?
> >
> > I'll give it a try later (the machine is in my office).
>
> The patch seems working fine. Thanks!
>
> Tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
thanks guys - i've queued it up in tip/core/urgent and will send a pull
request to Linus later today.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-19 10:09 Sven Schnelle
2008-10-22 10:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-22 11:07 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-22 11:29 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-22 12:06 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-22 13:13 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-22 13:19 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-22 13:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-23 2:36 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-23 5:22 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-23 11:58 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-23 10:15 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-23 11:46 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-28 10:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-28 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-28 10:47 ` Takashi Iwai
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