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  Forum: Device Drivers
  Re: Getting a DMA buffer aligned with 64k boundaries (Juan de La Figuera Bayon)
  Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:05:03 GMT
  From: Valery Shchedrin <valery@forthpick.kiev.ua>

If you allocate memory, using __get_dma_pages, you'll get aligned blocks. I use __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL,4) for 64KB blocks and __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL,5) for 128KB ones. I'm not sure that it is correct way, but it seems to work right as supposed.