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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>, Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DMA memory, split_page, BUG_ON(PageCompound()), sound
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:34:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B28F93.9020304@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710162600.GB18728@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 04:59:48PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>I guess you could do it a number of ways. Maybe having GFP_USERMAP
>>set __GFP_USERMAP|__GFP_COMP, and the arm dma memory allocator can
>>strip the __GFP_COMP.
>>
>>If you get an explicit __GFP_COMP passed down, the allocator doesn't
>>know whether that was because they want a user mappable area, or
>>really want a compound page (in which case, stripping __GFP_COMP is
>>the wrong thing to do).
> 
> 
> So I'll mask off __GFP_COMP for the time being in the ARM dma allocator
> with a note to this effect?

I believe that should do the trick, yes (AFAIK, nobody yet is
explicitly relying on a compound page from the dma allocator).

Marc can hopefully confim the fix.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-10 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-09  0:07 DMA memory, split_page, BUG_ON(PageCompound()), sound Marc Singer
2006-07-09  3:26 ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-10  2:51   ` Marc Singer
2006-07-10  6:59     ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-10 16:26       ` Russell King
2006-07-10 17:34         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-07-10 22:27           ` Marc Singer
2006-07-11  2:51           ` Marc Singer
2006-07-12 10:32           ` Russell King
2006-07-13 13:30             ` Takashi Iwai
2006-07-13 13:38               ` Nick Piggin

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