Thread (28 messages) flat view 28 messages, 5 authors, 2002-06-15

Re: [PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context

From: Dan Malek <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-14 02:08:21

David Gibson wrote:

 > ......  Likewise with __get_free_pages()
which is what pci_alloc_consistent() uses on cache-coherent processors
now.
....and my concern is you are replacing a call to __get_free_pages() with
a call to kmalloc().  Are you sure you want to be doing this?  There may
be users of pci_alloc_consistent that assume page alignment which may not
happen when you call kmalloc().


	-- Dan

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