Re: [3/3] Use the DMA32 zone for dma_alloc_coherent()/pci_alloc_consistenton x86-64

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 12:42:01 EST




On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Use the DMA32 zone for dma_alloc_coherent()/pci_alloc_consistent on x86-64
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
>
> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
> +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
> @@ -219,6 +219,8 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, s
> /* Kludge to make it bug-to-bug compatible with i386. i386
> uses the normal dma_mask for alloc_coherent. */
> dma_mask &= *dev->dma_mask;
> + if (dma_mask <= 0xffffffff)
> + gfp |= GFP_DMA32;

How can this be right?

Let's say that dma_mask is 0xfffff (ie 20-bit legacy DMA). It will trigger
the test, and set the GFP_DMA32 bit. Which can't be right.

I'm going to drop the DMA32 parts of the patches, they seem to be pretty
raw.

Linus
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