From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "vmalloc", friends and GFP flags
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 16:57:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301012257.h01Mvpq03439@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
> I've just been looking over the state of the ARM {dma,pci}_alloc_consis
> tent wrt interrupts etc in 2.5.53, and decided to have a look around
> this area for other users. I stumbled across the following unsafe
> areas.
> a) parisc. Looking at pa11_dma_alloc_consistent:
I agree with the flow analysis. However, there is a condition attached to
getting from pte_alloc_kernel to pte_alloc_one_kernel which makes the
GFP_KERNEL allocation. That condition looks to be that the pmd is not
present. I don't believe that's possible for an area of memory we just got
from __get_free_pages (otherwise the kernel could fault when accessing that
region which isn't allowed).
If the above analysis is correct (which I'll defer to better opinion) then we
can in practice never get down the problem path, and dma_ allocation from
interrupt is safe on parisc.
James
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2003-01-01 21:49 "vmalloc", friends and GFP flags Russell King
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