Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750826AbVKSU4r (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:56:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750827AbVKSU4r (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:56:47 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:47278 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbVKSU4q (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:56:46 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:55:57 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Hugh Dickins Cc: "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound Message-ID: <20051119205557.GO6916@holomorphy.com> References: <20051117.154323.10862063.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1068 Lines: 23 On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, David S. Miller wrote: >> I think this is a good change regardless of the VM_RESERVED issues. >> I've been wanting to use this facility in some sparc64 bits in >> the past, for example. But since it was HUGETLB guarded that >> wasn't possible. On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:15:13PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I've only just found that we have to supply the __GFP_COMP flag to get > this working. And one of the routes through snd_dma_alloc_pages goes > to sbus_alloc_consistent. Would you be happy for me to send Andrew a > patch with sparc and sparc64 sbus_alloc_consistent including __GFP_COMP? > Ought I to do the same in the sparc and sparc64 pci_alloc_consistent?? I usually end up deferring to Dave on the driver issues, but this time I can independently agree in an informed manner. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/