Re: [PATCH] ALSA update [6/10] - 2002/07/20

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>what is wrong with the PCI DMA API that makes ALSA wants a private
>>interface/implementation ?
> 
> 
> These lines (i386 arch):
> 
>         if (hwdev == NULL || ((u32)hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff))
>                 gfp |= GFP_DMA;
>         ret = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size));
> 
> Note that some of soundcards have various PCI DMA transfer limits 
> (dma_mask is not set to use full 32-bits). In this case, restricting this 
> hardware to allocate these buffers in first 16MB is not a very good idea.
> Thus, we have own hacks to allocate memory in whole hardware area.

It sounds like it would be reasonable to fix the ia32 arch code, would 
it not?


> Debugging. We enumerate all allocations, so we can check for memory leaks.
> I'm happy to say, that our code is very well debugged in this regard.

So are the net drivers, but without wrappers :)