On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:47 +0800, nickcheng wrote:
> Sorry, maybe I did not ask distinctly enough.
> I mean if I would like to allocate a memory space from ZONE_DMA for atomic
> context, why can I not use kmalloc(1032, GFP_ATOMIC|GFP_DMA)?
> In case of lack of GFP_DMA, kmalloc would grab the memor
nt: Monday, February 25, 2008 6:15 PM
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Cc: 'James Bottomley'; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch added to scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] arcmsr: fix message
allocation
nickcheng wrote:
> Hi,
> I definitely agree it is in atomic context but why is the memory
nickcheng wrote:
Hi,
I definitely agree it is in atomic context but why is the memory not for
DMA?
Would you please show me why?
It would probably be easier if you could explain where you believe the
memory IS used for DMA :)
Anyway, looking at ARCMSR_MESSAGE_READ_RQBUFFER
current code does
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