Re: [patch] GFP_ZONEMASK vs. MAX_NR_ZONES

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:53:08PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
> node_zonelists looks like it should really be declared of size 
> MAX_NR_ZONES, not GFP_ZONEMASK.  GFP_ZONEMASK is currently 15, making 
> node_zonelists an array of 16 elements.  The extra zonelists are all 
> just duplicates of the *real* zonelists, namely the first 3 entries. 
> Again, if anyone can explain to me why I'm wrong in my thinking, I'd 
> love to know.  There's certainly no way you could bitwise-and something 
> with any combination of the GFP_DMA and GFP_HIGHMEM flags to refer to 
> the 12th zonelist or some such!  Or am I crazy?

No, you're not crazy, you're right:

#define __GFP_DMA       0x01
#define __GFP_HIGHMEM   0x02

/* Action modifiers - doesn't change the zoning */
#define __GFP_WAIT      0x10    /* Can wait and reschedule? */
#define __GFP_HIGH      0x20    /* Should access emergency pools? */
#define __GFP_IO        0x40    /* Can start physical IO? */
#define __GFP_FS        0x80    /* Can call down to low-level FS? */
#define __GFP_COLD      0x100   /* Cache-cold page required */
#define __GFP_NOWARN    0x200   /* Suppress page allocation failure warning */

bits 3-6 of gfp masks are totally unused.


-- wli