From: Timmy Yee <shoujun@masterofpi.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Kernel-janitors] [PATCH] fix kmalloc() in aha1542.c
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:20:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040120152019.GA3384@masterofpi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040119034853.GA15426@masterofpi.org>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 06:00:41PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> What do you mean called with no memtype?
GFP_DMA is a helper flag that tells the kernel that the memory should be
suitable for DMA purposes. But it doesn't necessarily say what type of
memory it should be allocating (i.e. should the memory be allocated on
behalf of the user? should the allocation be done atomically? etc).
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 3:48 [Kernel-janitors] [PATCH] fix kmalloc() in aha1542.c Timmy Yee
2004-01-19 12:37 ` Daniele Bellucci
2004-01-20 15:20 ` Timmy Yee [this message]
2004-01-20 15:33 ` Timmy Yee
2004-01-20 22:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-01-20 23:07 ` Randy.Dunlap
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