From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jon Medhurst <tixy@yxit.co.uk>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Sumit Bhattacharya <sumitb@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: dma: Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:39:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111123233957.GM9581@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174F08C785@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:10:03AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> Stephen Warren wrote at Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:04 AM:
> > Stephen Warren wrote at Friday, November 04, 2011 3:36 PM:
> > > dma_alloc_coherent wants to split pages after allocation in order to
> > > reduce the memory footprint. This does not work well with GFP_COMP
> > > pages, so drop this flag before allocation.
> > >
> > > This patch is ported from arch/avr32
> > > (commit 3611553ef985ef7c5863c8a94641738addd04cff).
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sumit Bhattacharya <sumitb@nvidia.com>
> > > Tested-by: Varun Colbert <vcolbert@nvidia.com>
> > > [swarren: s/HUGETLB_PAGE/HUGETLBFS/ in comment, minor comment cleanup]
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> >
> > Russell, does this look good to go in the patch system now?
>
> ping?
I think so.
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2011-11-04 21:35 Stephen Warren
2011-11-09 18:03 ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-23 19:10 ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-23 23:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
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