[PATCH 1/3] powerpc: dma code cleanup
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
    benh at kernel.crashing.org
       
    Wed Oct  8 09:12:51 EST 2008
    
    
  
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:11 -0700, Remi Machet wrote:
> This will disappear since I am going to use the vmalloc pool but out of
> curiosity: calling kmap should not result in any virtual memory from the
> kmap pool being used unless the allocated page is in high memory. Do you
> expect many driver to call dma_alloc with GFP_HIGHMEM?
Hard to tell, but they can so ...
Ben.
    
    
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