linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/9] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix command buffer allocation

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Message-ID: <20170208144328.GS5020@rric.localdomain>
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:43:28 +0100
From:   Robert Richter <robert.richter@...ium.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
CC:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix command buffer allocation

On 08.02.17 14:41:18, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01 2017 at  5:38:25 pm GMT, Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com> wrote:
> > The its command buffer must be page aligned, but kzalloc() is not
> > guaranteed to be (though it is mostly when allocating 64k). Use
> > __get_free_pages() as this is used for other buffers as well.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>
> 
> I'm still going through this series, but as this is an obvious fix, I've
> cherry-picked it for 4.11.

That was actually my intention, thus I placed it first.

-Robert