Re: [PATCH] [8/13] Enable the mask allocator for x86

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 14:09:03 EST


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:03:13PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 07:32:55PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:07:18AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >
> > > - Disable old ZONE_DMA
> > > No fixed size ZONE_DMA now anymore. All existing users of __GFP_DMA rely
> > > on the compat call to the maskable allocator in alloc/free_pages
> > > - Call maskable allocator initialization functions at boot
> > > - Add TRAD_DMA_MASK for the compat functions
> >
> > I see TRAD_DMA_MASK used by patch 6 and patch 7, but only here
> > in this later patch it is defined.
> > Looks like we have build breakage - but I have not checked it.
>
> It is only used when the architecture defines CONFIG_MASK_ALLOC and
> that is not done by any until the later patches.
Understood - I just took a quick look and wanted to let you know.

Sam
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