Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi Pavel,

On Thursday, June 02, 2011, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2011-06-01 21:38:59, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > 2011/6/1 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > Please be more polite to other people. After a197b59ae6 all allocations
> > > with GFP_DMA set on nodes without ZONE_DMA fail nearly silently (only
> > > one warning during bootup is emited, no matter how many things fail).
> > > This is a very crude change on behaviour. To be more civil, instead of
> > > failing emit noisy warnings each time smbd. tries to allocate a GFP_DMA
> > > memory on non-ZONE_DMA node.
> > >
> > > This change should be reverted after one or two major releases, but
> > > we should be more accurate rather than hoping for the best.
> > 
> > Instaed of, shouldn't we revert a197b59ae6? Some arch don't have
> > DMA_ZONE at all.
> > and a197b59ae6 only care x86 embedded case. If we accept your patch, I
> > can imagine
> > other people will claim warn foold is a bug. ;)
> 
> I believe we should revert. It broke zaurus boot for metan...

Is it still a problem, or has it been fixed in the meantime?

Rafael
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