Re: [PATCH 24/27] Convert gfp_zone() to use a table of precalculatedvalues

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 11:09:31 EST


On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> I wonder why you have to make the bad caller work insane way ?
> Is this bad ?
> ==
> const int gfp_zone_table[GFP_ZONEMASK] = {
> ZONE_NORMAL, /* 00 No flags set */
> ZONE_DMA, /* 01 Only GFP_DMA set */
> ZONE_HIGHMEM, /* 02 Only GFP_HIGHMEM set */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 03 GFP_HIGHMEM and GFP_DMA set */
> ZONE_DMA32, /* 04 Only GFP_DMA32 set */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 05 GFP_DMA and GFP_DMA32 set */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 06 GFP_DMA32 and GFP_HIGHMEM set */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 07 GFP_DMA, GFP_DMA32 and GFP_DMA32 set */
> ZONE_MOVABLE, /* 08 Only ZONE_MOVABLE set */
> ZONE_DMA, /* 09 MOVABLE + DMA */
> ZONE_MOVABLE, /* 0A MOVABLE + HIGHMEM */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 0B MOVABLE + DMA + HIGHMEM */
> ZONE_DMA32, /* 0C MOVABLE + DMA32 */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 0D MOVABLE + DMA + DMA32 */
> BAD_ZONE, /* 0E MOVABLE + DMA32 + HIGHMEM */
> BAD_ZONE /* 0F MOVABLE + DMA32 + HIGHMEM + DMA
> };
> ==

It would work if we could check for BAD_ZONE with a VM_BUG_ON or a
BUILD_BUG_ON. If I get some time I will look into this.

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