From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:27:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220811072726.GA13886@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yj3zyLs4f+ba6UqF@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 05:54:32PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > I thought there are only few pages in the managed by the DMA zone. This
> > > is still theoretically possible so I think __GFP_NOWARN makes sense here
> > > but it would require to change the patch description.
> > >
> > > Is this really worth it?
> >
> > In general I think for kernels where we need the pool and can't allocate
> > it, a warning is very useful. We just shouldn't spew it when there is
> > no need for the pool to start with.
>
> Well, do we have any way to find that out during early boot?
In general an architecture / configuration that selects
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA needs it. We could try to reduce that dependency and/or
make it boot time configurable, but there's still plenty of device with
sub-32bit addessing limits around, so I'm not sure it would help much.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-11 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-25 12:25 [PATCH] dma/pool: do not complain if DMA pool is not allocated Michal Hocko
2022-03-25 12:58 ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-25 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-25 16:54 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 9:52 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 14:59 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-03 15:05 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-03 15:32 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-03 15:44 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-04 11:01 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-04 12:01 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-05 12:34 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-05 17:37 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-09 15:37 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-10 1:32 ` Andrew Morton
2022-08-10 6:40 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-10 2:19 ` Baoquan He
2022-08-11 7:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:25 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 7:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:20 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 8:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-08-11 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2022-08-11 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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