x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
Currently, GART alloc_coherent tries to allocate pages with GFP_DMA32 for a device having dma_masks > 24bit < 32bits. If GART gets an address that a device can't access to, GART try to map the address to a virtual I/O address that the device can access to. But Andi pointed out, "The GART is somewhere in the 4GB range so you cannot use it to map anything < 4GB. Also GART is pretty small." http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/12/43 That is, it's possible that GART doesn't have virtual I/O address space that a device can access to. The above behavior doesn't work for a device having dma_masks > 24bit < 32bits. This patch restores old GART alloc_coherent behavior (before the alloc_coherent rewrite). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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