[PATCH 3/7] RDMA/qib: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc_coherent

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Tue Nov 15 12:40:21 PST 2022


On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:35:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> dma_alloc_coherent is an opaque allocator that only uses the GFP_ flags
> for allocation context control.  Don't pass GFP_USER which doesn't make
> sense for a kernel DMA allocation or __GFP_COMP which makes no sense
> for an allocation that can't in any way be converted to a page pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_iba6120.c |  2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_init.c    | 21 ++++-----------------
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Same same

Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>

Jason



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