Re: [PATCH 1/2] dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_*

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Dec 14 2018 - 13:35:13 EST


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 07:10:56PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
>
> I stumbled upon this one:
>
> #define __get_dma_pages(gfp_mask, order) \
> __get_free_pages((gfp_mask) | GFP_DMA, (order))

This isn't directly related to the dma mapping, but another place
that hides GFP_DMA allocations. So no need for the treatment,
but we really should kill this obsfucating wrapper..