Hi! > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > This change should be reverted after one or two major releases, but > > > > we should be more accurate rather than hoping for the best. > > > > > > Instaed of, shouldn't we revert a197b59ae6? Some arch don't have > > > DMA_ZONE at all. > > > and a197b59ae6 only care x86 embedded case. If we accept your patch, I > > > can imagine > > > other people will claim warn foold is a bug. ;) > > > > I believe we should revert. It broke zaurus boot for metan... > > Is it still a problem, or has it been fixed in the meantime? > This was revered in 3.0-rc2. -- metan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>