Thread (30 messages) 30 messages, 12 authors, 2011-06-12

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

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2011-06-01 19:09:21
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
quoted
That is NOT an unreasonable request, but it seems that its far too much
to ask of you.
Full ack.

David,

stop that nonsense already. You changed the behaviour and broke stuff
which was working fine before for whatever reason. That behaviour was
in the kernel for ages and we tolerated the abuse.
Did I nack this patch and not realize it?

Does my patch fix the warning for pxaficp_ir that would still be emitted 
with this patch?  If the driver uses GFP_DMA and nobody from the arm side 
is prepared to remove it yet, then I'd suggest merging my patch until that 
can be determined.  Otherwise, you have no guarantees about where the 
memory is actually coming from.

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