From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: DMA APIs gumble grumble
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:07:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163131652.4982.103.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061109.190143.78711283.davem@davemloft.net>
> I wish sparc32 hadn't used alloc_resource() as a poor-man's bitmap
> allocator to keep track of IOMMU mappings. That's where the
> GFP_KERNEL requirement comes from.
>
> Just use GFP_KERNEL for now, and someone might find the strength
> to remove this problem some day :-)
Well, Anton has a pile of sparc's in a closet... :-)
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-10 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-08 1:54 DMA APIs gumble grumble Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 4:46 ` David Miller
2006-11-08 5:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 5:29 ` David Miller
2006-11-08 5:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-10 1:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-10 2:50 ` David Miller
2006-11-10 2:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-10 3:01 ` David Miller
2006-11-10 4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-11-08 8:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-11-08 8:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 9:21 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-11-08 10:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-08 22:56 ` Russell King
2006-11-08 23:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-11-09 0:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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