Re: [PATCH 2/7] RDMA/hfi1: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc_coherent

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On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 05:35:30PM +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@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c | 21 +++------------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

I have no idea what qib was trying to do here, but I'm fine if you
take this through another tree

Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Jason



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