Re: [PATCH v2] usb: core: warn if a GFP zone flag is passed to hcd_buffer_alloc()

[Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>]

On 16.04.25 09:48, Petr Tesarik wrote:

> Oh, I do, and that's precisely why these GFP flags are no good. The
> address (and other) constraints imposed by different buses may not
> (and often do not) match any existing memory zone.

True. So we currently have a non-portable series of flags.
It would we better if we passed a hypothetical 'struct mem_constraint*'.
But we don't for now.

> However, zone address ranges are determined statically at compile time,
> or latest at boot time (e.g. arm64). It's too late to adjust the limits
> when you hotplug a more constrained bus at run-time. And I haven't even
> mentioned bus bridges which add a non-zero offset to the address...

Yes. Hence the only time somebody would pass a flag like that would be
on very arch specific code. That means that such a developer would be on
his or her own. Hence I'd say the simplest solution is just to do nothing.

	Regards
		Oliver