The commit message of commit 57bf5a8963f8 ("dma-mapping: clear harmful GFP_* flags in common code") says that probably warn when we encounter harmful GFP_* flags which we clean -- because the client code is best case silly if not buggy. I concur with that. Let's warn once when we encounter silly GFP_* flags. The guys caring about the respective client code will hopefully fix these soon. Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'm not too happy with my warning message. Suggestions welcome! --- include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index 5024bc863fa7..299f36ac8668 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -823,6 +823,9 @@ extern gfp_t dma_override_gfp_flags(struct device *dev, gfp_t flags); static inline gfp_t dma_override_gfp_flags(struct device *dev, gfp_t flags) { /* let the implementation decide on the zone to allocate from: */ + dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, + flags & (__GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM), + "fixme: don't dma_alloc with any of: __GFP_DMA32, __GFP_DMA, __GFP_HIGHMEM\n"); return flags & ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_HIGHMEM); } #endif -- 2.17.1