Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing

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

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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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