On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Yasunori Goto wrote: > Even if a device allows over 4G access and the driver doesn't specify > GFP_DMA, dma_alloc_coherent() returns under 4G area. GFP_DMA can become 0 for configurations that have !CONFIG_ZONE_DMA. Then all of memory is available. The call is subarch specific. So f.e. Altix sn_dma_alloc_coherent does not set __GFP_DMA. If you have an IA64 arch that only support 32bit I/O then __GFP_DMA in dma_alloc_coherent makes sense. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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