[PATCH] pci_alloc_consistent in an interrupt context

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Fri Jun 14 12:08:21 EST 2002


David Gibson wrote:

 > ......  Likewise with __get_free_pages()
> which is what pci_alloc_consistent() uses on cache-coherent processors
> now.

....and my concern is you are replacing a call to __get_free_pages() with
a call to kmalloc().  Are you sure you want to be doing this?  There may
be users of pci_alloc_consistent that assume page alignment which may not
happen when you call kmalloc().


	-- Dan

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