netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169:Place dma_alloc

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Message-ID: <20150730205909.GA7888@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:59:09 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Corcodel Marian <corcodel.marian@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8169:Place dma_alloc_coherent on interrupt
 context

Corcodel Marian <corcodel.marian@...il.com> :
>    According to this doc
>  https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/DMA-API.txt   dma_alloc_coherent
>  must run on interrupt context, and flush the chip before use.

You have misunderstood what an irq context is.

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Ueimor
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