[PATCH] arm: dma: Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations
Stephen Warren
swarren at nvidia.com
Fri Nov 4 17:35:39 EDT 2011
From: Sumit Bhattacharya <sumitb at nvidia.com>
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 at nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Varun Colbert <vcolbert at nvidia.com>
[swarren: s/HUGETLB_PAGE/HUGETLBFS/ in comment, minor comment cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
---
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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