Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758203Ab1FJWYg (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:24:36 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39613 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758103Ab1FJWYf (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:24:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306922672-9012-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> References: <1306922672-9012-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:24:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make GFP_DMA allocations w/o ZONE_DMA emit a warning instead of failing To: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Rientjes , Russell King - ARM Linux , Mel Gorman , KOSAKI Motohiro , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 17 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov wrote: > Please be more polite to other people. After a197b59ae6 all allocations > with GFP_DMA set on nodes without ZONE_DMA fail nearly silently (only > one warning during bootup is emited, no matter how many things fail). > This is a very crude change on behaviour. To be more civil, instead of > failing emit noisy warnings each time smbd. tries to allocate a GFP_DMA > memory on non-ZONE_DMA node. The whole thing already got reverted in commit 1fa7b6a29c613. Linus -- 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/