* [merged mm-stable] media-staging-imx-dont-use-gfp_dma-when-calling-dma_alloc_coherent.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-10-24 8:58 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-24 8:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, hch, harry, hebaoquan, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: media: staging: imx: don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_alloc_coherent()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
media-staging-imx-dont-use-gfp_dma-when-calling-dma_alloc_coherent.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
Subject: media: staging: imx: don't use GFP_DMA when calling dma_alloc_coherent()
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 19:18:31 +0800
dma_alloc_coherent() allocates the DMA buffer with the device's addressing
limitation in mind; the DMA core picks the zone from the device's coherent
DMA mask and ignores GFP_DMA passed by the caller. Remove the redundant
GFP_DMA flag.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260903111836.1777265-9-hebaoquan@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <hebaoquan@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
---
drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c~media-staging-imx-dont-use-gfp_dma-when-calling-dma_alloc_coherent
+++ a/drivers/staging/media/imx/imx-media-utils.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ int imx_media_alloc_dma_buf(struct devic
buf->len = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
buf->virt = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, buf->len, &buf->phys,
- GFP_DMA | GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf->virt)
return -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hebaoquan@kylinos.cn are
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