ARM: Allocate dma pages via the page allocator and not via the slab allocator Slab allocations are *not* guaranteed to be page aligned and slab allocators may use the page structs for their own purposes. Using the page allocator yields a properly aligned page and also makes the page flushing logic work right. Passing a kmalloced "page" to a flushing function will not work reliably. This will hopefully address the issue with SLUB on ARM. SLUB uses the page->mapping field which is also checked by the flushing logic. The flushing logic expect a normal page and not a slab page. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- arch/arm/mm/consistent.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c 2007-06-21 18:18:15.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c 2007-06-21 18:29:16.000000000 -0700 @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ dma_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, s if (arch_is_coherent()) { void *virt; - virt = kmalloc(size, gfp); + virt = get_free_pages(gfp, get_order(size)); if (!virt) return NULL; *handle = virt_to_dma(dev, virt); @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ void dma_free_coherent(struct device *de WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()); if (arch_is_coherent()) { - kfree(cpu_addr); + free_pages((unsigned long)cpu_addr, get_order(size)); return; }