Re: [PATCH v2] sr: don't use GFP_DMA

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On 12/23/21 at 10:01am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 06:40:46PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Any thought or plan for those callsites in other places? Possibly we can
> > skip those s390 related drivers since s390 only has DMA zone, no DMA32,
> > it should be OK.
> 
> Yes, this needs a bit of an audit.  A lot of them might be best handled
> by the subsysem maintainers, e.g. for crypto media and sound.

Yes, agree. I can send a mail to subsystem maintainers about this, ask
them for help.

> 
> > And could you please also add me to CC when send out these patches? We
> > have this problem in our RHEL8 which is based on kernel4.18, if finally
> > removing dma-kmalloc(), we need back port these driver fixes too. If
> > not paying attention, these patches may scatter in different
> > sub-components and unnoticable.
> 
> I already sent them out yesterday.  Just look for everything with
> GFP_DMA in the subject line in the current scsi tree for 5.17.

Got, thx.




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