On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:27 -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > From: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> > > Ensure we allocate GEM objects below 4GB on PAE machines, otherwise > misery ensues. This patch is based on a patch found on dri-devel by > Shaohua Li, but Keith P. expressed reticence that the changes unfairly > penalized other hardware. > > (The mm/shmem.c hunk is necessary to ensure the DMA32 flag isn't used > by the slab allocator via radix_tree_preload, which will hit a > WARN_ON.)
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