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

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> Yes and no. I'm asking for the grace period for the drivers authors to be able
> to fix their code. After a grace period of one or two majors this permission
> should be removed and your original patch should be effective.
> 

You don't need to wait for the code to be fixed, you just need to enable 
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA.  This is a configuration issue.  If that GFP_DMA can be 
removed later, that's great, but right now it requires it.  Why can't you 
enable the config option?
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