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