Re: ZONE_DMA

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> Oh, it's already there in the tree, but obviously some drivers still need 
> to be converted.  See Documentation/DMA-API.txt.  It's not PCI specific 
> like the old PCI DMA interface (Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt) and 
> provides a way for drivers to specify their addressing limitations 
> (dma_supported and dma_set_mask), which allows the underlying architecture 
> code to report a failure if necessary.

AFAICT this is dealing with special dma issues and not with the problem of 
allocating memory for a certain supported address range from the page 
allocator. From the first glance at the docs it looks as if it is relying 
on __GFP_DMAxx to get the allocations right. I think the code could be 
changed though to call a new page allocator function to get the right 
memory and that would work for all devices using that API.

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