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SubjectRe: __get_free_pages: can GFP_DMA omit GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC?
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> first, can a call to __get_free_pages to allocate DMA-able memory
> omit specifying either of GFP_KERNEL or GFP_ATOMIC? love's book on
> kernel development strongly suggests you need to specify one or the
> other, but there are a few instances in the tree like this:

Sure that seems to be equivalent to GFP_ATOMIC with no access to emergency
pool memory.

> and, second, i only noticed this as i was going to submit a short
> patch to replace __get_free_pages calls for DMA-able memory with the
> existing equivalent macro __get_dma_pages. is that still considered a
> worthwhile cleanup? there's not that many examples of it, and it
> would just make things consistent.

Sure.
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