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SubjectRE: aacraid code passes GFP_DMA32 to kmalloc this will not work
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans de Goede [mailto:hdegoede@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 8:51 AM
> To: dl-esc-Aacraid Linux Driver <aacraid@microsemi.com>; James E.J.
> Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Martin K. Petersen
> <martin.petersen@oracle.com>; SCSI development list <linux-
> scsi@vger.kernel.org>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: aacraid code passes GFP_DMA32 to kmalloc this will not work
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Since I made the same mistake myself I've done a quick grep for
> GFP_DMA32 in the kernel and drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c came up as a
> result of this grep, it does:
>
> p = kmalloc(sg_count[i], GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32);
>
> But kmalloc always returns memory from the normal memory-zone, if you need
> memory from a specific memory-zone like the
> DMA32 zone, you must use the dma allocation functions (which from a quick
> glance at the code seems appropriate here) or directly call alloc_page or
> __get_free_page.

Hi Hans,

I did run into this issue myself recently ... Thanks for a reminder to send in a patch to
correct this.

-Dave
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
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