On Fri,  7 Mar 2008 10:07:16 +0100 (CET) Andi Kleen wrote:

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> This is the core code of the maskable allocator. Introduction
> appended.

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> Index: linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2116,6 +2116,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  	norandmaps	Don't use address space randomization
>  			Equivalent to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
>  
> +	maskzone=size[MG] Set size of maskable DMA zone to size.
> +		 force	Always allocate from the mask zone (for testing)

                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ??

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>  ______________________________________________________________________
>  
>  TODO:

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> Index: linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
> +++ linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
> @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
>  !Emm/memory.c
>  !Emm/vmalloc.c
>  !Imm/page_alloc.c
> +!Emm/mask-alloc.c
>  !Emm/mempool.c
>  !Emm/dmapool.c
>  !Emm/page-writeback.c

Thanks for the kernel-doc annotations.

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~Randy
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