Re: Please help with kernel BUG at include/linux/gfp.h:80 withndiswrapper on x86_64

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:13 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
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> With kernel 2.6.15-rc5, gfp_zone has the following BUG_ON:
> 
> static inline int gfp_zone(gfp_t gfp)
> {
>         int zone = GFP_ZONEMASK & (__force int) gfp;
>         BUG_ON(zone >= GFP_ZONETYPES);
>         return zone;
> }
> 
> This is being tripped by ndiswrapper on x86_64 when it calls:
> 
> dma_alloc_coherent(&pci_dev->dev,size,dma_handle, \
>                            GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_REPEAT | GFP_DMA)


I don't think GFP_DMA is a valid option for dma_alloc_coherent at all;
GFP_DMA was for isa card allocations, for PCI stuff you need to set the
proper masks instead, and GFP_DMA is obsolete and wrong for PCI.
(except for potentially deep arch code that knows what it's doing).


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