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From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@lst.de>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] dma-mapping: use exact allocation in dma_alloc_contiguous
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:50:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190614145001.GB9088@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a90cf7ec5f1c4166b53c40e06d4d832a@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:15:44PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Does this still guarantee that requests for 16k will not cross a 16k boundary?
> It looks like you are losing the alignment parameter.

The DMA API never gave you alignment guarantees to start with,
and you can get not naturally aligned memory from many of our
current implementations.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14 13:47 use exact allocation for dma coherent memory Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 01/16] media: videobuf-dma-contig: use dma_mmap_coherent Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 02/16] drm/ati_pcigart: stop using drm_pci_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 03/16] drm/i915: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 16:45   ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] drm: move drm_pci_{alloc,free} to drm_legacy Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 05/16] drm: don't mark pages returned from drm_pci_alloc reserved Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 06/16] drm: don't pass __GFP_COMP to dma_alloc_coherent in drm_pci_alloc Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 07/16] IB/hfi1: stop passing bogus gfp flags arguments to dma_alloc_coherent Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 08/16] IB/qib: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 09/16] cnic: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 10/16] iwlwifi: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 11/16] s390/ism: " Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 12/16] staging/comedi: mark as broken Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 14:02   ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 14:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 15:30       ` Greg KH
2019-06-14 15:34         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-17 13:15           ` Ian Abbott
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: rename alloc_pages_exact_nid to alloc_pages_exact_node Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: use alloc_pages_exact_node to implement alloc_pages_exact Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 15/16] dma-mapping: clear __GFP_COMP in dma_alloc_attrs Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 13:47 ` [PATCH 16/16] dma-mapping: use exact allocation in dma_alloc_contiguous Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-14 14:15   ` David Laight
2019-06-14 14:50     ` 'Christoph Hellwig' [this message]
2019-06-14 15:01       ` David Laight
2019-06-14 15:05         ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2019-06-14 15:05       ` Robin Murphy
2019-06-14 15:08         ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2019-06-14 15:16         ` David Laight
2019-06-17  8:21 ` use exact allocation for dma coherent memory Dan Carpenter
2019-06-17  8:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-06-19 16:29     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-06-20 10:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-01  8:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-07-02  9:48   ` Arend Van Spriel
2019-07-08 18:43     ` Christoph Hellwig

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