Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:54:56 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 "I can't get no compilation" |
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 12:19 10/06/02, Martin Dalecki wrote: > >> The subject says it all... >> >> Contrary to other proposed patches I realized that there is >> no such thing as vmalloc_dma. > > > Perhaps you ought to look in mm/vmalloc.c which contains: > > void * vmalloc_dma (unsigned long size) > { > return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA, PAGE_KERNEL); > } > > Or are you going to tell me that is a figment of my imagination? >
Oh I have missed the chunk which delets it there apparently, since *nobody* is using this. The only place where a special __vmalloc setup code is used in nfs which GFP_NOFS flag added, but not the above. so providing vmalloc_nofs would make more sense then vmalloc_dma.
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