Hi, On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:58:34 +0200 Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Ok, I've already sent v2 just now, where, instead of changing it back, just with GFP_ATOMIC, kzalloc() would be selected, just in case. I guess that this would be ok(a bit safer?) -- 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/
