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Revision e04f228335bde305d2833e40382ed37fc36f9efe authored by Mandeep Singh Baines on 30 July 2012, 21:43:22 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 31 July 2012, 00:25:22 UTC 
lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
 
We are seeing a lot of sg_alloc_table allocation failures using the new
drm prime infrastructure.  We isolated the cause to code in
__sg_alloc_table that was re-writing the gfp_flags.

There is a comment in the code that suggest that there is an assumption
about the allocation coming from a memory pool.  This was likely true
when sg lists were primarily used for disk I/O.

Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: e04f228335bde305d2833e40382ed37fc36f9efe authored by Mandeep Singh Baines on 30 July 2012, 21:43:22 UTC
lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()
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