ia64: Fix IDE block-layer BUG_ON() reported by Darren Williams.
The problem was that IDE-disks on machines with IDE harddisks, memory above 4GB and no hardware I/O TLB would go BUG_ON() in blk_queue_bounce_limit() because the IDE-controller could only address 4GB of memory and that was much less than BLK_BOUNCE_ISA (which is equal to ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD). Note that the problem does NOT trigger with CD-ROMs, which always uses the software I/O TLB (and hence bounce-buffers) on such machines. The best fix seems to be to simply lower ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD to 4GB-1 since that will ensure that the IDE block layer allocates memory with GFP_DMA, which will minimize bounce buffering.
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