Re: [PATCH] [scsi] Remove __GFP_DMA

["Aubrey Li" <aubreylee@gmail.com>]

On 5/23/07, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote:
>
> > [PATCH] [scsi] Remove __GFP_DMA
> >
> > After 821de3a27bf33f11ec878562577c586cd5f83c64, it's not necessary to alloate a
> > DMA buffer any more in sd.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
>
> Great that avoids a DMA kmalloc slab. Any other GFP_DMAs left in the scsi
> layer?
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Yes, here is another patch

Signed-off-by: Aubrey.Li <aubreylee@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c |   12 ++++++------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
index 72b0393..405722d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
@@ -580,8 +580,8 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_dev* dev,
void __user * arg)
 			for (i = 0; i < upsg->count; i++) {
 				u64 addr;
 				void* p;
-				/* Does this really need to be GFP_DMA? */
-				p = kmalloc(upsg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_DMA);
+
+				p = kmalloc(upsg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL);
 				if(p == 0) {
 					dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not allocate SG buffer - size
= %d buffer number %d of %d\n",
 					  upsg->sg[i].count,i,upsg->count));
@@ -624,8 +624,8 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_dev* dev,
void __user * arg)
 			for (i = 0; i < usg->count; i++) {
 				u64 addr;
 				void* p;
-				/* Does this really need to be GFP_DMA? */
-				p = kmalloc(usg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_DMA);
+
+				p = kmalloc(usg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL);
 				if(p == 0) {
 					kfree (usg);
 					dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not allocate SG buffer - size
= %d buffer number %d of %d\n",
@@ -666,8 +666,8 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_dev* dev,
void __user * arg)
 			for (i = 0; i < upsg->count; i++) {
 				u64 addr;
 				void* p;
-				/* Does this really need to be GFP_DMA? */
-				p = kmalloc(usg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_DMA);
+
+				p = kmalloc(usg->sg[i].count,GFP_KERNEL);
 				if(p == 0) {
 					dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not allocate SG buffer - size
= %d buffer number %d of %d\n",
 					  usg->sg[i].count,i,usg->count));
-- 
1.5.1.1