Re: consistent_free re-revisited

From
Matt Porter <hidden>
Date
2002-09-12 17:05:31
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:29:45AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
IIRC, to fix the interrupt context bit, we need something like the
following, which was Paul's idea, and he said he would talk to Dave M.
about it.  Did anything ever happen there?
<snip>

In addition to that, you need to scrub the entire consistent_alloc
path...that includes map_page()->pte_alloc_kernel() which may
do a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

Then it's more complex yet with Book E's need to have those possible
page table allocations from the pinned TLB region.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter@cox.net
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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