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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from cma_alloc()
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On 07/09/2018 02:19 PM, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> cma_alloc() function doesn't really support gfp flags other than
> __GFP_NOWARN, so convert gfp_mask parameter to boolean no_warn parameter.
>
> This will help to avoid giving false feeling that this function supports
> standard gfp flags and callers can pass __GFP_ZERO to get zeroed buffer,
> what has already been an issue: see commit dd65a941f6ba ("arm64:
> dma-mapping: clear buffers allocated with FORCE_CONTIGUOUS flag").
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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