[PATCH 2/2] ARM: dma-mapping: use himem for DMA buffers for IOMMU-mapped devices
Marek Szyprowski
m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Wed Jan 16 10:31:23 EST 2013
IOMMU can provide access to any memory page, so there is no point in
limiting the allocated pages only to lowmem, once other parts of
dma-mapping subsystem correctly supports himem pages.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
---
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 4080c37..9a6c8ce 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -1095,12 +1095,17 @@ static struct page **__iommu_alloc_buffer(struct device *dev, size_t size,
return pages;
}
+ /*
+ * IOMMU can map any pages, so himem can also be used here
+ */
+ gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
+
while (count) {
int j, order = __fls(count);
- pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_NOWARN, order);
+ pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
while (!pages[i] && order)
- pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_NOWARN, --order);
+ pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp, --order);
if (!pages[i])
goto error;
--
1.7.9.5
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