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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@innocent.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 22:08:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D095015.8020704@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020614013352.GF26146@zax


David Gibson wrote:

 > ......  Likewise with __get_free_pages()
> which is what pci_alloc_consistent() uses on cache-coherent processors
> now.

....and my concern is you are replacing a call to __get_free_pages() with
a call to kmalloc().  Are you sure you want to be doing this?  There may
be users of pci_alloc_consistent that assume page alignment which may not
happen when you call kmalloc().


	-- Dan

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-14  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-13 19:28 [PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-13 20:58 ` Tom Rini
2002-06-13 21:47   ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 21:56     ` Tom Rini
2002-06-14  0:24       ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  0:38         ` Tom Rini
2002-06-14  0:45           ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  0:51             ` Tom Rini
2002-06-14  5:14               ` David Gibson
2002-06-14 14:59                 ` Tom Rini
2002-06-15  6:40                   ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  1:25         ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-14  1:33           ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  1:57             ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-14  2:06               ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  2:15                 ` Tom Rini
2002-06-14  3:58                   ` David Gibson
2002-06-14  4:42                     ` Tom Rini
2002-06-14  2:08             ` Dan Malek [this message]
2002-06-14  1:57       ` Dan Malek
2002-06-13 22:23     ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-13 23:34       ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-14  2:17         ` Dan Malek
2002-06-14  2:29         ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-13 23:37       ` Paul Mackerras
2002-06-14  2:15       ` Dan Malek
2002-06-14  2:21         ` Eugene Surovegin
2002-06-13 23:07     ` [PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context, part 2 Eugene Surovegin

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