Re: [PATCH] x86: make gart_alloc_coherent return zeroed memory

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Aug 22 2008 - 02:36:54 EST



* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:28:27 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The dma_alloc_coherent function should return memory set to zero. This patch
> > adds this to the GART implementation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> This should be foiled to the first patch in the patchset. No good
> reason to push a patch that might cause a problem.

agreed - i folded the fix back and respun this portion of tip/x86/iommu.

Ingo
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