linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:23:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>
cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning
 instead of failing

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?

Why don't you actually address the problem with the driver you're 
complaining about with the patch below, which I already posted to you a 
few days ago?

If this arm driver is going to be using GFP_DMA unconditionally, it better 
require CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for it to actually be meaningful until such time 
as it can be removed if it's truly not needed or generalized to only 
specific pieces of hardware.
---
 drivers/net/irda/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig b/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/Kconfig
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ config VIA_FIR
 config PXA_FICP
 	tristate "Intel PXA2xx Internal FICP"
 	depends on ARCH_PXA && IRDA
+	select ZONE_DMA
 	help
 	  Say Y or M here if you want to build support for the PXA2xx
 	  built-in IRDA interface which can support both SIR and FIR.
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