On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:25:50PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Bob Tracy wrote: > > That seems to have done the trick. Normally, I get the "bad page" > > errors on the second NX session, but I'm on the third session of the > > day (thus far), and everything seems to be ok as far as I can tell. > > Thanks a lot for the feedback, that tells us we've made the right > guesses, and my __GFP_COMP patch should be a good bandaid for you; > but for the right patch, let's wait to hear from Ivan. Here it is. Bob, can you test this one? --- Take care of DMA flags passed to dma_alloc_coherent(). Particularly ALSA needs that. Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ivan. --- 2.6.22/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c Mon Jul 9 03:32:17 2007 +++ linux/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c Wed Jul 11 14:40:37 2007 @@ -398,11 +398,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_unmap_page); else DMA_ADDRP is undefined. */ void * -pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *pdev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_addrp) +__pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *pdev, size_t size, + dma_addr_t *dma_addrp, gfp_t gfp) { void *cpu_addr; long order = get_order(size); - gfp_t gfp = GFP_ATOMIC; + + gfp &= ~GFP_DMA; try_again: cpu_addr = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, order); @@ -432,7 +434,7 @@ try_again: return cpu_addr; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_alloc_consistent); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__pci_alloc_consistent); /* Free and unmap a consistent DMA buffer. CPU_ADDR and DMA_ADDR must be values that were returned from pci_alloc_consistent. SIZE must --- 2.6.22/include/asm-alpha/pci.h Mon Jul 9 03:32:17 2007 +++ linux/include/asm-alpha/pci.h Wed Jul 11 14:40:37 2007 @@ -75,7 +75,13 @@ extern inline void pcibios_penalize_isa_ successful and sets *DMA_ADDRP to the pci side dma address as well, else DMA_ADDRP is undefined. */ -extern void *pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *, size_t, dma_addr_t *); +extern void *__pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *, size_t, + dma_addr_t *, gfp_t); +static inline void * +pci_alloc_consistent(struct pci_dev *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma) +{ + return __pci_alloc_consistent(dev, size, dma, GFP_ATOMIC); +} /* Free and unmap a consistent DMA buffer. CPU_ADDR and DMA_ADDR must be values that were returned from pci_alloc_consistent. SIZE must --- 2.6.22/include/asm-alpha/dma-mapping.h Mon Jul 9 03:32:17 2007 +++ linux/include/asm-alpha/dma-mapping.h Wed Jul 11 14:40:37 2007 @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ #define dma_unmap_single(dev, addr, size, dir) \ pci_unmap_single(alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev), addr, size, dir) #define dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, addr, gfp) \ - pci_alloc_consistent(alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev), size, addr) + __pci_alloc_consistent(alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev), size, addr, gfp) #define dma_free_coherent(dev, size, va, addr) \ pci_free_consistent(alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev), size, va, addr) #define dma_map_page(dev, page, off, size, dir) \ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html