linux-kernel - Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255

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Date:	Sun, 29 May 2011 00:46:14 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>,
	Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Subject: Re: IrDA driver fails on PXA255

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:34:07PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> The driver is attempting to allocate DMA memory and you have 
> CONFIG_ZONE_DMA disabled, which is the only reason you would get this 
> warning.  If the allocation did not fail as a result of a197b59ae6e8, the 
> page allocator may return any memory in a higher zone that the driver may 
> not be expecting.  If you had never noticed a problem before, it may be 
> possible that the driver doesn't actually have any zone restrictions and 
> GFP_DMA can be removed, but this code is pretty old.  Otherwise, it'll 
> need to depend on ZONE_DMA in the Kconfig.
> 
> Let's cc Nicolas and Russell as well.

Ouch.  We're probably going to have a pile of work to do to check that
the DMA masks on all our devices are correct for the unrestricted case
then.  That's probably going to be a very _big_ patch.
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