[PATCH] arm: dma: Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations

[Stephen Warren]

From: Sumit Bhattacharya <sumitb@xxxxxxxxxx>

dma_alloc_coherent wants to split pages after allocation in order to
reduce the memory footprint. This does not work well with GFP_COMP
pages, so drop this flag before allocation.

This patch is ported from arch/avr32
(commit 3611553ef985ef7c5863c8a94641738addd04cff).

Signed-off-by: Sumit Bhattacharya <sumitb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Varun Colbert <vcolbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
[swarren: s/HUGETLB_PAGE/HUGETLBFS/ in comment, minor comment cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index e4e7f6c..68d64b4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -332,6 +332,15 @@ __dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle, gfp_t gfp,
 	struct page *page;
 	void *addr;
 
+	/*
+	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
+	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
+	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
+	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
+	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
+	 */
+	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
+
 	*handle = ~0;
 	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 
-- 
1.7.0.4

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