Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu May 05 2016 - 07:49:53 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs