Messages in this thread | | | Subject | __get_free_pages() on an ia64 | From | Adhiraj <> | Date | Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:46:40 +0530 |
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Hi All,
I found a strange thing on ia64 platform. When I allocate pages using __get_free_pages() with GFP_DMA, sometimes the physical addresses of allocated pages fall beyond 4G.
I am working on a device driver where the device does not support addresses above 4G and hence I have to implement bounce buffers. The bounce buffer code works fine on other architectures. But since I get 4G+ addresses on ia64, the code would not work. Any idea why should this happen? And any workaround if I _NEED_ addresses below 4G. The machine has 2G of physical memory.
The dma mask is set to 64 bits using pci_set_dma_mask().
Thanks in advance, Adhiraj.
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