From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Mika Penttilä" <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: DMA32 zone unusable
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:53:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511161653.07291.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B4EB0.3080908@kolumbus.fi>
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 16:22, Mika Penttila wrote:
> The new DMA32 zone (which at least x86-64 has) is quite "interesting" :
>
> #define __GFP_DMA32 ((__force gfp_t)0x04) <-----!!!!!
>
> #define GFP_ZONEMASK 0x03 <------!!!!!
>
> #define gfp_zone(mask) ((__force int)((mask) & (__force gfp_t)GFP_ZONEMASK))
Yes that was a last minute change that was wrong. I will submit
an update. Thanks for reviewing.
-Andi
> static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> unsigned int order)
> {
> if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
> return NULL;
>
> return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order,
> NODE_DATA(nid)->node_zonelists + gfp_zone(gfp_mask));
> }
>
>
> So with GFP_DMA32 you never get those pages (but DMA instead).
>
> --Mika
>
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2005-11-16 15:22 Mika Penttilä
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