From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __get_free_pages() problem on ia64
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:26:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060927112651.GP5017@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159283801.4407.16.camel@triumph>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 10:38:13AM +0530, Adhiraj wrote:
> Ok, thanks, I will look into it. But the question is why do I get
> addresses beyond 4G (virt_to_phys() of returned addresses) even when I
> use GFP_DMA. Is this a known problem on ia64?
All memory is DMAable as we have an IOMMU. ZONE_DMA doesn't mean what
you think it means.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-26 15:28 __get_free_pages() problem on ia64 Adhiraj
2006-09-26 16:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-27 5:20 ` Adhiraj
2006-09-27 11:26 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-09-27 16:11 ` Luck, Tony
2006-09-27 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
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