Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Russell King wrote:

> This sounds like it could help ARM where we have some weird DMA areas.

Some ARM platforms have no need for a ZONE_DMA. The code in mm allows you 
to not compile ZONE_DMA support into these kernels.

> What will help even more is if the block layer can also be persuaded that
> a device dma mask is precisely that - a mask - and not a set of leading
> ones followed by a set of zeros, then we could eliminate the really ugly
> dmabounce code.

With a alloc_pages_range() one would be able to specify upper and lower 
boundaries. The device dma mask can be translated to a fitting boundary. 
Maybe we can then also get rid of the device mask and specify a boundary 
there. There is a lot of ugly code all around that circumvents the 
existing issues with dma masks. That would all go away.

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