From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752847Ab1KWXkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:40:17 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:39644 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752348Ab1KWXkQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:40:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:39:57 +0000 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Stephen Warren Cc: Jon Medhurst , Nicolas Pitre , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Sumit Bhattacharya Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: dma: Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations Message-ID: <20111123233957.GM9581@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1320442539-7753-1-git-send-email-swarren@nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174080512F@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174F08C785@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF174F08C785@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > > > Tested-by: Varun Colbert > > > [swarren: s/HUGETLB_PAGE/HUGETLBFS/ in comment, minor comment cleanup] > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren > > > > Russell, does this look good to go in the patch system now? > > ping? I think so.