Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: mm: use macro instead of if judgement of ZONE_DMA

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 04:08:43AM +0100, Yifan Zhang wrote:
> I found In current arm64 code, there is no normal zone, only DMA zone.
> 
> Number of blocks type     Unmovable  Reclaimable      Movable
> Reserve          CMA      Isolate
> 
> Node 0, zone    DMA          142           12           69
> 1           28            0
> 
> When zone_sizes_init, zone_size[ZONE_NORMAL] is initialized to 0. (it
> is 3.10, I didn't try the latest code base)
[...]
> Is this ZONE_DMA cover full memory and ZONE_NORMAL = 0 strategy on
> purpose ? We will not use ZONE_NORMAL on arm64 ?

The normal zone is still there, only that it doesn't have any pages. The
page allocator falls back to the DMA zone, so you would not see any
problems with normal page allocation.

Are you trying to solve anything (performance?) or just what the kernel
shows as part of the normal zone?

-- 
Catalin
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