From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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 19:19:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110601181918.GO3660@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106011017260.13089@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 18:19 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 [this message]
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
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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