From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: alloc_skb cannot be called with GFP_DMA
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:03:12 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15TQMy-00081S-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010805175334.E21840@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Aug 05, 2001 05:53:34 PM
> In order to fix those bugs correctly and avoid memory corruption a new
> skbuff_head_cache_isadma skb cache will be needed.
>
> A fast grep revealed a few buggy network drivers already (of course the
> bug is going to affect only ISA drivers so it's not a showstopper).
"It doesnt affect my computer so its not a problem" - humm
If somoe can add the needed isa dma handling to alloc_skb (or alloc_isa_skb)
I'll go and fix all the drivers up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-05 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-05 15:53 alloc_skb cannot be called with GFP_DMA Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-05 16:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-08-05 16:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-05 17:18 ` kuznet
2001-08-05 18:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-09-26 21:18 Manfred Spraul
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