Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG

From	"Shi, Yang" <yang.shi@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG
Date	2016-05-09 19:30 +0200
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On 5/5/2016 4:49 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 04-05-16 10:01:37, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Now we have IS_ENABLED helper to check if a Kconfig option is enabled or not,
>> so ZONE_DMA_FLAG sounds no longer useful.
>>
>> And, the use of ZONE_DMA_FLAG in slab looks pointless according to the
>> comment [1] from Johannes Weiner, so remove them and ORing passed in flags with
>> the cache gfp flags has been done in kmem_getpages().
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/25/553
>
> I haven't checked the patch but I have a formal suggestion.
> lkml.org tends to break and forget, please use
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/$msg-id instead. In this case
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140925185047.GA21089@cmpxchg.org

Thanks for the suggestion. Will use msg-id in later post.

Regards,
Yang

>
> Thanks!
>

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[PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> - 2016-05-04 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-05-05 14:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: remove ZONE_DMA_FLAG "Shi, Yang" <yang.shi@linaro.org> - 2016-05-09 19:30 +0200

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