Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2002 16:46:37 -0500 | From | Dan Malek <> | Subject | Re: pci_alloc_consistent from interrupt == BAD |
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Russell King wrote:
> ..... The problem currently is > that there is no way for the page table allocation functions to know > that they should be using atomic and emergency pool memory allocations.
Hmmm...I thought they already do this. I always assumed the gfp_flag passed into alloc_pages would find its way all of the way through the page table allocation as well. You just have to be ready to handle the case where it returns with an -ENOMEM :-).
-- Dan
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