Re: PROBLEM: iwlagn kernel 2.6.32.3 ooops

[Stanislaw Gruszka]

Hi

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:04:52AM -0800, reinette chatre wrote:
> I do not understand your goal here ... as seen in this trace
> pci_alloc_consistent itself already calls dma_alloc_coherent right away.

We can call dma_alloc_coherent with GFP_KERNEL, pci_alloc_consistent is
more or less equal to dma_alloc_coherent with GFP_ATOMIC flag.

Stanislaw
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