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    [PATCH] swiotlb: make sure initial DMA allocations really are in DMA memory · 281dd25c
    Yasunori Goto authored
    This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
    parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
    allocator should be within the requested limit.
    
    We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
    alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
    is the only api used for swiotlb.
    
    The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
    changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator.  But that
    would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
    alloc_bootmem_low_pages().  We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
    cleanup.
    
    With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
    arches.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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