Re: Alpha: virt_to_bus/GFP_DMA problem

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:27:55 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Thomas Sailer wrote:

> Anyway, the following patch should safely disable recording
> when virt_to_bus(kmalloc(GFP_DMA)) > 16M. Playback should
> still work, as interestingly the playback controller
> has a full 32bit address register.

ack, now i understand, this is on the _Alpha_, stupid me. It should be
really trivial to create a 16MB GFP_DMA zone on the Alpha (right now it
creates one single zone). Could you try the attached patch?

probably the right solution is to introduce an Alpha-specific DMA24BIT
zone?

Ingo

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