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authorAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>2005-11-05 17:25:53 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-14 19:55:14 -0800
commit47492d3667ec519172ab978bd8231b8c7152fa9d (patch)
tree06e86f5fe27976d75a935458b1f428af410a04fe /arch
parent07808b74e7dab1aa385e698795875337d72daf7d (diff)
[PATCH] x86_64: Use the DMA32 zone for dma_alloc_coherent()/pci_alloc_consistent
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
index 88be97c9698..2e28e855ec3 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
uses the normal dma_mask for alloc_coherent. */
dma_mask &= *dev->dma_mask;
+ /* Why <=? Even when the mask is smaller than 4GB it is often larger
+ than 16MB and in this case we have a chance of finding fitting memory
+ in the next higher zone first. If not retry with true GFP_DMA. -AK */
+ if (dma_mask <= 0xffffffff)
+ gfp |= GFP_DMA32;
+
again:
memory = dma_alloc_pages(dev, gfp, get_order(size));
if (memory == NULL)
@@ -245,7 +251,7 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
}
if (!(gfp & GFP_DMA)) {
- gfp |= GFP_DMA;
+ gfp = (gfp & ~GFP_DMA32) | GFP_DMA;
goto again;
}
return NULL;