From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629D46B004A for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:19:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:19:18 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing Message-ID: <20110601181918.GO3660@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1306922672-9012-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Rientjes Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mel Gorman , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:23:15AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > > > I've hit this with IrDA driver on PXA. Also I've seen the report regarding > > other ARM platform (ep-something). Thus I've included Russell in the cc. > > > > So you want to continue to allow the page allocator to return pages from > anywhere, even when GFP_DMA is specified, just as though it was lowmem? No. What *everyone* is asking for is to allow the situation which has persisted thus far to continue for ONE MORE RELEASE but with a WARNING so that these problems can be found without causing REGRESSIONS. That is NOT an unreasonable request, but it seems that its far too much to ask of you. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org