On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > Another issue is that when a platform has restricted DMA regions, > > they typically don't fall into the highmem zone. As the dmabounce > > code allocates from the DMA coherent allocator to provide it with > > guaranteed DMA-able memory, that would be rather inconvenient. > > Do we encounter this in practice i.e. do those platforms requiring large > contiguous allocations motivating this work have such DMA restrictions? You can probably find one or two of those, but we don't have to optimize for that case. I would at least expect the maximum size of the allocation to be smaller than the DMA limit for these, and consequently mandate that they define a sufficiently large CONSISTENT_DMA_SIZE for the crazy devices, or possibly add a hack to unmap some low memory and call dma_declare_coherent_memory() for the device. Arnd -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>