On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 01:07:54PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > git clone git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git -b powerpc-dma.6 a > > git checkout 257002094bc5935dd63207a380d9698ab81f0775 > > > I get the following error message with your patch: Hmm. Did I attached the wrong patch? Here is the one I want and just applied to that revision: diff --git a/kernel/dma/direct.c b/kernel/dma/direct.c index 355d16acee6d..e46c9b64ec0d 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/direct.c +++ b/kernel/dma/direct.c @@ -118,8 +118,11 @@ struct page *__dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, page = NULL; } } - if (!page) + if (!page) { page = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), gfp, page_order); + if (!page) + pr_warn("failed to allocate memory with gfp 0x%x\n", gfp); + } if (page && !dma_coherent_ok(dev, page_to_phys(page), size)) { __free_pages(page, page_order); @@ -139,6 +142,10 @@ struct page *__dma_direct_alloc_pages(struct device *dev, size_t size, } } + if (!page) { + pr_warn("failed to allocate DMA memory!\n"); + dump_stack(); + } return page; }