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Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:23:56 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> You are right. Code that allocates more than page and expects it to be
> physicaly contignuous is broken by design. Even rewrite the driver or
> allocate memory on boot. It will be very hard to audit all drivers for it.

Better buy us all new hardware, then ;)

Some devices really do want physically contiguous buffers
for DMA...


Rik
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