linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA

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Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 10:27:49 -0700
From:	"Shi, Yang" <yang.shi@...aro.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:	cl@...ux.com, penberg@...nel.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	hannes@...xchg.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG

On 5/5/2016 4:49 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 04-05-16 10:01:37, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Now we have IS_ENABLED helper to check if a Kconfig option is enabled or not,
>> so ZONE_DMA_FLAG sounds no longer useful.
>>
>> And, the use of ZONE_DMA_FLAG in slab looks pointless according to the
>> comment [1] from Johannes Weiner, so remove them and ORing passed in flags with
>> the cache gfp flags has been done in kmem_getpages().
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/25/553
>
> I haven't checked the patch but I have a formal suggestion.
> lkml.org tends to break and forget, please use
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/$msg-id instead. In this case
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140925185047.GA21089@cmpxchg.org

Thanks for the suggestion. Will use msg-id in later post.

Regards,
Yang

>
> Thanks!
>