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zaurus 3.0-rc1 Oops (fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured)

Message ID 20110601154154.GB26197@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (mailing list archive)
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Cyril Hrubis June 1, 2011, 3:41 p.m. UTC
Hi!
The 3.0-rc1 no longer boots on spitz see the attached Oops.

The bisecting pointed to this commit, reverting it machine boots again.

commit a197b59ae6e8bee56fcef37ea2482dc08414e2ac
Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date:   Tue May 24 17:12:35 2011 -0700

    mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured
    
    The page allocator will improperly return a page from ZONE_NORMAL even
    when __GFP_DMA is passed if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is disabled.  The caller
    expects DMA memory, perhaps for ISA devices with 16-bit address registers,
    and may get higher memory resulting in undefined behavior.
    
    This patch causes the page allocator to return NULL in such circumstances
    with a warning emitted to the kernel log on the first occurrence.
    
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 01e6b61..10a8c6d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2247,6 +2247,10 @@  __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 
        if (should_fail_alloc_page(gfp_mask, order))
                return NULL;
+#ifndef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
+       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_DMA))
+               return NULL;
+#endif
 
        /*
         * Check the zones suitable for the gfp_mask contain at least one