Re: [PATCH, 5.8 regression] mptfusion: don't use GFP_ATOMIC for larger DMA allocations

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On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:57:24 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> The mpt fusion driver still uses the legacy PCI DMA API, which hardcodes
> atomic allocations.  This caused the driver to fail to load on some
> powerpc VMs with incoherent DMA and small memory sizes.  Switch to use
> the modern DMA API and sleeping allocations for large allocations
> instead.  This is not a full cleanup of the PCI DMA API usage yet, but
> just enough to fix the regression caused by reducing the default atomic
> pool size.

Applied to 5.8/scsi-fixes, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: mptfusion: Don't use GFP_ATOMIC for larger DMA allocations
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/311950f8b8d8

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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