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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: AMD64 dma_alloc_coherent crashes on non PCI device (was SATA open bugs) II
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:11:41 +0200
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BTW unless I'm misreading the i386 code it'll not fail here, but
allocate memory. Surely that will cause failures later if you
rely on it failing? If you don't rely on it then changing x86-64
will also not help you.

-Andi