On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 02:43 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I might be missing too much context here, but can't we make drivers > that > need this allocate an uncached memory range at setup time and call > dma_declare_coherent_memory() on that to make a later > dma_alloc_coherent() > succeed without GFP_KERNEL?
That isn't that much different, and still needs a dedicated allocator which is pretty much what I'm trying to get rid of. It would make everybody's life easier if we just banned those allocations from atomic contexts :-) Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
