From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1896B0012 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com (mail-wy0-f169.google.com [74.125.82.169]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id p5AMOW1Q028049 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:33 -0700 Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so2855534wyf.14 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306922672-9012-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> References: <1306922672-9012-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Russell King - ARM Linux , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Please be more polite to other people. After a197b59ae6 all allocations > with GFP_DMA set on nodes without ZONE_DMA fail nearly silently (only > one warning during bootup is emited, no matter how many things fail). > This is a very crude change on behaviour. To be more civil, instead of > failing emit noisy warnings each time smbd. tries to allocate a GFP_DMA > memory on non-ZONE_DMA node. The whole thing already got reverted in commit 1fa7b6a29c613. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org