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[PATCH 2/2] dma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from dma_alloc_from_contiguous()

From: Vlastimil Babka <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-16 07:45:39
Also in: linux-iommu, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml

On 07/09/2018 02:19 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
The CMA memory allocator doesn't support standard gfp flags for memory
allocation, so there is no point having it as a parameter for
dma_alloc_from_contiguous() function. Replace it by a boolean no_warn
argument, which covers all the underlaying cma_alloc() function supports.

This will help to avoid giving false feeling that this function supports
standard gfp flags and callers can pass __GFP_ZERO to get zeroed buffer,
what has already been an issue: see commit dd65a941f6ba ("arm64:
dma-mapping: clear buffers allocated with FORCE_CONTIGUOUS flag").

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
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