On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:03 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following patch adds a config option to get rid of the DMA zone on i386.
>
> Architectures with devices that have no addressing limitations (eg. PPC)
> already work this way.
>
> This is useful for custom kernel builds where the developer is certain that
> there are no address limitations.
>
> For example, the OLPC machine contains:
>
> - USB devices
> - no floppy
> - no address limited PCI devices
> - no floppy
>
> A unified zone simplifies VM reclaiming work, and also simplifies OOM
> killer heuristics (no need to deal with OOM on the DMA zone).
>
> Comments?
Hi,
since one gets random corruption if a user gets this wrong, at least
make things like floppy and all CONFIG_ISA stuff conflict with this
option.... without that your patch feels like a walking time bomb...
(and please include all PCI drivers that only can do 24 bit or 28bit
or .. non-32bit dma as well)
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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