Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:19:18 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing |
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:23:15AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > > > I've hit this with IrDA driver on PXA. Also I've seen the report regarding > > other ARM platform (ep-something). Thus I've included Russell in the cc. > > > > 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?
No. What *everyone* is asking for is to allow the situation which has persisted thus far to continue for ONE MORE RELEASE but with a WARNING so that these problems can be found without causing REGRESSIONS.
That is NOT an unreasonable request, but it seems that its far too much to ask of you.
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