-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Mike Pagano As of 2.6.24, running the archttp passthrough daemon with the arcmsr driver produces an endless spew of dma_free_coherent warnings: WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma_64.c:169 dma_free_coherent() It turns out that coherent memory is not needed, so commit 76d78300 by Nick Cheng switched it to kmalloc (as well as making a lot of other changes which have not been included here). James Bottomley pointed out that the new kmalloc usage was also wrong, I corrected this in commit 69e562c2. This patch combines both of the above for the purpose of fixing 2.6.24. details in http://bugs.gentoo.org/208493. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Cc: Nick Cheng Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c @@ -1380,17 +1380,16 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc switch(controlcode) { case ARCMSR_MESSAGE_READ_RQBUFFER: { - unsigned long *ver_addr; - dma_addr_t buf_handle; + unsigned char *ver_addr; uint8_t *pQbuffer, *ptmpQbuffer; int32_t allxfer_len = 0; - ver_addr = pci_alloc_consistent(acb->pdev, 1032, &buf_handle); + ver_addr = kmalloc(1032, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ver_addr) { retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL; goto message_out; } - ptmpQbuffer = (uint8_t *) ver_addr; + ptmpQbuffer = ver_addr; while ((acb->rqbuf_firstindex != acb->rqbuf_lastindex) && (allxfer_len < 1031)) { pQbuffer = &acb->rqbuffer[acb->rqbuf_firstindex]; @@ -1419,25 +1418,24 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc } arcmsr_iop_message_read(acb); } - memcpy(pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, (uint8_t *)ver_addr, allxfer_len); + memcpy(pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, ver_addr, allxfer_len); pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length = allxfer_len; pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.ReturnCode = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_RETURNCODE_OK; - pci_free_consistent(acb->pdev, 1032, ver_addr, buf_handle); + kfree(ver_addr); } break; case ARCMSR_MESSAGE_WRITE_WQBUFFER: { - unsigned long *ver_addr; - dma_addr_t buf_handle; + unsigned char *ver_addr; int32_t my_empty_len, user_len, wqbuf_firstindex, wqbuf_lastindex; uint8_t *pQbuffer, *ptmpuserbuffer; - ver_addr = pci_alloc_consistent(acb->pdev, 1032, &buf_handle); + ver_addr = kmalloc(1032, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ver_addr) { retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL; goto message_out; } - ptmpuserbuffer = (uint8_t *)ver_addr; + ptmpuserbuffer = ver_addr; user_len = pcmdmessagefld->cmdmessage.Length; memcpy(ptmpuserbuffer, pcmdmessagefld->messagedatabuffer, user_len); wqbuf_lastindex = acb->wqbuf_lastindex; @@ -1483,7 +1481,7 @@ static int arcmsr_iop_message_xfer(struc retvalue = ARCMSR_MESSAGE_FAIL; } } - pci_free_consistent(acb->pdev, 1032, ver_addr, buf_handle); + kfree(ver_addr); } break; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/