[PATCH] powerpc/mm: add ZONE_NORMAL zone for 64 bit kernel

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 24 09:30:15 EST 2012


On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 09:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> The layers in between, not the well behaved drivers. Again, we have
> ZONE_DMA32 specifically for the purpose, why use something else ?
> 
> In any case, make the whole thing at the very least a config option, I
> don't want sane HW to have to deal with split zones.

Or if possible a flag set by machine probe()

Cheers,
Ben.




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