linux-kernel - Re: [patch] bootmem: use MAX_DMA

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:13:06 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] bootmem: use MAX_DMA_ADDRESS instead of LOW32LIMIT


* Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> 
> __alloc_bootmem_low() and __alloc_bootmem_low_node() should use 
> MAX_DMA_ADDRESS as limit which is per architecture instead of a global 
> LOW32LIMIT. Otherwise the bootmem allocator may return addresses to 
> memory regions which cannot be used for DMA access.

> -#define LOW32LIMIT 0xffffffff

>  		if ((ptr = __alloc_bootmem_core(bdata, size,
> -						 align, goal, LOW32LIMIT)))
> +						 align, goal, MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)))

but this limits things to 16MB on i686. Are you sure this wont break 
anything?

	Ingo
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