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authorMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2013-01-16 15:41:02 +0100
committerMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2013-02-25 15:30:43 +0100
commitf8669bef11fadfe811a5d7d59cb327499edac088 (patch)
treecbb8847bbdc46153e70e635644ac0346d6beec11 /arch/arm/mm
parent9848e48f4c316ccb64d6f29ff0ed85f11d7bf532 (diff)
downloadlinux-f8669bef11fadfe811a5d7d59cb327499edac088.tar.gz
ARM: dma-mapping: use himem for DMA buffers for IOMMU-mapped devices
IOMMU can provide access to any memory page, so there is no point in
limiting the allocated pages only to lowmem, once other parts of
dma-mapping subsystem correctly supports himem pages.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index 94d7359074c2..2163af4b31b8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -1095,12 +1095,17 @@ static struct page **__iommu_alloc_buffer(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 		return pages;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * IOMMU can map any pages, so himem can also be used here
+	 */
+	gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
+
 	while (count) {
 		int j, order = __fls(count);
 
-		pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_NOWARN, order);
+		pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp, order);
 		while (!pages[i] && order)
-			pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_NOWARN, --order);
+			pages[i] = alloc_pages(gfp, --order);
 		if (!pages[i])
 			goto error;