Re: [PATCH] net: don't use kvzalloc for DMA memory

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Apr 18 2018 - 13:47:00 EST

From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:44:25 -0400 (EDT)

> The structure net_device is followed by arbitrary driver-specific data
> (accessible with the function netdev_priv). And for virtio-net, these
> driver-specific data must be in DMA memory.

And we are saying that this assumption is wrong and needs to be
corrected.