On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:00:34PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> >> __get_free_pages() allocates from lowmem (i.e. 0-4GB) only.
> >> Allocate from highmem instead.
>
> 0-1GB. page_address() will give unpredictable results on highmem GFP masks.
Sounds broken to me.
>
> There is no GFP mask for it. Port Jens' ZONE_DMA32 or something, or roll
> ZONE_4G on your own if need be.
Bill,
Looks like we simply jetisioned the concept of a PPL (Physical Pages List)
and went with a zone allocator instead. I'm sure there was a good reason for
it historically. Rolling a separate zone is exactly what I was thinking
when I reviewed the code intially. Question, which files will be affected so when I put this one in, I don't end up breaking the VM and userspace balancing
logic. i.e. Could you point me to Jens' ZONE_DMA32 code as well.
Thanks
Jeff
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>
> Bill
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