[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86: dma-mapping: fix GFP_ATOMIC macro usage" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86: dma-mapping: fix GFP_ATOMIC macro usage

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.20.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 293c023a1fad6225328454ed6c610903a19d9a3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:49:58 +0100
Subject: x86: dma-mapping: fix GFP_ATOMIC macro usage

commit c091c71ad2218fc50a07b3d1dab85783f3b77efd upstream.

GFP_ATOMIC is not a single gfp flag, but a macro which expands to the other
flags, where meaningful is the LACK of __GFP_WAIT flag. To check if caller
wants to perform an atomic allocation, the code must test for a lack of the
__GFP_WAIT flag. This patch fixes the issue introduced in v3.5-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
index 872079a..f7d0672 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c
@@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ void *dma_generic_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 	flag |= __GFP_ZERO;
 again:
 	page = NULL;
-	if (!(flag & GFP_ATOMIC))
+	/* CMA can be used only in the context which permits sleeping */
+	if (flag & __GFP_WAIT)
 		page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous(dev, count, get_order(size));
+	/* fallback */
 	if (!page)
 		page = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), flag, get_order(size));
 	if (!page)
--
1.8.3.2