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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:42:09 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106011140050.16198@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinrviHh40fTfqyeB=SrcNS0yqZM0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Yes and no. I'm asking for the grace period for the drivers authors to be able
> to fix their code. After a grace period of one or two majors this permission
> should be removed and your original patch should be effective.
> 

You don't need to wait for the code to be fixed, you just need to enable 
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA.  This is a configuration issue.  If that GFP_DMA can be 
removed later, that's great, but right now it requires it.  Why can't you 
enable the config option?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01 10:04 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-01 12:38 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-01 15:07   ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-01 17:23     ` David Rientjes
2011-06-01 18:19       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-01 18:55         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-06-01 19:09           ` David Rientjes
2011-06-01 19:46             ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-06-10  7:38               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-10  7:43                 ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-10  7:52                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-06-10  8:11                   ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-10  9:12                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-10 18:54                       ` David Rientjes
2011-06-10 18:58                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-10 22:01                           ` David Rientjes
2011-06-10 22:07                             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-10 22:16                               ` David Rientjes
2011-06-10 22:20                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-10 22:30                                   ` David Rientjes
2011-06-11  9:45                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2011-06-11 17:18                                       ` Robert Hancock
2011-06-12 13:48                                         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-06-01 18:30       ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2011-06-01 18:42         ` David Rientjes [this message]
2011-06-02 21:46   ` Pavel Machek
2011-06-12 11:07     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-12 11:33       ` Cyril Hrubis
2011-06-12 11:39         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-06-10 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds

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