On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > first, can a call to __get_free_pages to allocate DMA-able memory > omit specifying either of GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC? love's book on > kernel development strongly suggests you need to specify one or the > other, but there are a few instances in the tree like this:
Sure that seems to be equivalent to GFP_ATOMIC with no access to emergency pool memory. > and, second, i only noticed this as i was going to submit a short > patch to replace __get_free_pages calls for DMA-able memory with the > existing equivalent macro __get_dma_pages. is that still considered a > worthwhile cleanup? there's not that many examples of it, and it > would just make things consistent. Sure. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
