Re: DMA memory, split_page, BUG_ON(PageCompound()), sound

[Marc Singer]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:34:11AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >So I'll mask off __GFP_COMP for the time being in the ARM dma allocator
> >with a note to this effect?
> 
> I believe that should do the trick, yes (AFAIK, nobody yet is
> explicitly relying on a compound page from the dma allocator).
> 
> Marc can hopefully confim the fix.

The patch, attached, works in that there is no BUG_ON() trap.