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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gerard Roudier <groudier@free.fr>,
	mattl@mvista.com
Subject: Re: pci_alloc_consistent from interrupt == BAD
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:22:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C4875DB.9080402@embeddededge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020118130209.J14725@altus.drgw.net>

Troy Benjegerdes wrote:

> Somehow the docs in DMA-mappings.txt say pci_alloc_consistent is allowed from 
> interrupt, but this is a "bad thing" on at least arm and PPC non-cache 
> coherent cpus.

This isn't unique to PowerPC or ARM, and has nothing to do with allocating
page tables.

I don't understand how pci_alloc_consistent could ever be claimed to work
from an interrupt function because it actually allocates pages of memory
for all architectures.  Anytime you call alloc_pages() (or friends) you could
potentially block or return an error (out of memory) condition.

Either option is undesirable for an interrupt function.  If your software can
handle the case of not being able to allocate memory, then why not remove the
complexity and do it that way all of the time?

Thanks.


	-- Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-18 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-18 19:02 pci_alloc_consistent from interrupt == BAD Troy Benjegerdes
2002-01-18 19:22 ` Dan Malek [this message]
2002-01-18 20:32   ` David S. Miller
2002-01-18 21:29     ` Russell King
2002-01-18 21:33       ` David S. Miller
2002-01-18 21:42         ` Russell King
2002-01-18 21:46       ` Dan Malek
2002-01-18 21:55         ` Russell King
2002-01-18 22:13           ` Dan Malek
2002-01-18 21:43     ` Dan Malek
2002-01-18 20:50   ` Gérard Roudier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1011386221.24072.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-01-21 23:52     ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-01-22  0:08       ` David S. Miller
2002-01-22  0:20         ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-01-18 20:21 ` Gérard Roudier
2002-01-18 20:38   ` David S. Miller
2002-01-18 21:07     ` Gérard Roudier
2002-01-18 21:13       ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-19 17:21 David Brownell

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