Hello, On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:37 PM Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> KyongHo Cho <[email protected]> wrote @ Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0200: > > > vzalloc() call in __iommu_alloc_buffer() also causes BUG() in atomic > > context. > > Right. > > I've been thinking that kzalloc() may be enough here, since > vzalloc() was introduced to avoid allocation failure for big chunk of > memory, but I think that it's unlikely that the number of page array > can be so big. So I propose to drop vzalloc() here, and just simply to > use kzalloc only as below(*1). We already had a discussion about this, so I don't think it makes much sense to change it back to kzalloc. This vmalloc() call won't hurt anyone. It should not be considered a problem for atomic allocations, because no sane driver will try to allocate buffers larger than a dozen KiB with GFP_ATOMIC flag. I would call such try a serious bug, which we should not care here. Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski Samsung Poland R&D Center -- 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/
