Does kmalloc on MPC82xx work correctly with GFP_DMA?

Matt Porter mporter at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 20 00:31:22 EST 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:31:12AM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
> No, the kmalloc() space is not covered by BATs (but, that isn't
> relevant for this discussion).

Dan, I think you forgot that green book PPCs get kernel lowmem
("kmalloc() space") covered by BATs if possible...unless you
pass in "nobats".

-Matt



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