Commit ea2e7057 authored by Sumit Bhattacharya's avatar Sumit Bhattacharya Committed by Russell King

ARM: 7172/1: dma: Drop GFP_COMP for DMA memory allocations

dma_alloc_coherent wants to split pages after allocation in order to
reduce the memory footprint. This does not work well with GFP_COMP
pages, so drop this flag before allocation.

This patch is ported from arch/avr32
(commit 3611553e).

[swarren: s/HUGETLB_PAGE/HUGETLBFS/ in comment, minor comment cleanup]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSumit Bhattacharya <sumitb@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: default avatarVarun Colbert <vcolbert@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
parent c36ef4b1
......@@ -332,6 +332,15 @@ __dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle, gfp_t gfp,
struct page *page;
void *addr;
/*
* Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
* with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
* handle them. The real problem is that this flag probably
* should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
* platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
*/
gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
*handle = ~0;
size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
......
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