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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:54:56 +0200
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 "I can't get no compilation"
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 12:19 10/06/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
>> The subject says it all...
>>
>> Contrary to other proposed patches I realized that there is
>> no such thing as vmalloc_dma.
> 
> 
> Perhaps you ought to look in mm/vmalloc.c which contains:
> 
> void * vmalloc_dma (unsigned long size)
> {
>         return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA, PAGE_KERNEL);
> }
> 
> Or are you going to tell me that is a figment of my imagination?
> 

Oh I have missed the chunk which delets it there apparently, since
*nobody* is using this. The only place where a special
__vmalloc setup code is used in nfs which GFP_NOFS flag added,
but not the above. so providing vmalloc_nofs would make more
sense then vmalloc_dma.

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