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From: Adhiraj <adhiraj@linsyssoft.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: __get_free_pages() problem on ia64
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:28:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159283801.4407.16.camel@triumph> (raw)

Hi All,

I found a strange thing on ia64 platform. When I allocate pages using
__get_free_pages() with GFP_DMA, sometimes the physical addresses of
allocated pages fall beyond 4G.

I am working on a device driver where the device does not support
addresses above 4G and hence I have to implement bounce buffers. The
bounce buffer code works fine on other architectures. But since I get 
4G+ addresses on ia64, the code would not work. Any idea why should this
happen? And any workaround if I _NEED_ addresses below 4G. The machine
has 2G of physical memory.

The dma mask for the driver is set to 64 bits using pci_set_dma_mask().

Thanks in advance,
Adhiraj.


             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 15:28 Adhiraj [this message]
2006-09-26 16:48 ` __get_free_pages() problem on ia64 Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-27  5:20 ` Adhiraj
2006-09-27 11:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-27 16:11 ` Luck, Tony
2006-09-27 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox

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