[PATCH] Set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for arches with GENERIC_ISA_DMA
As Andi pointed out: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA only disables the ISA DMA channel management. Other functionality may still expect GFP_DMA to provide memory below 16M. So we need to make sure that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is set independent of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA. Undo the modifications to mm/Kconfig where we made ZONE_DMA dependent on GENERIC_ISA_DMA and set theses explicitly in each arches Kconfig. Reviews must occur for each arch in order to determine if ZONE_DMA can be switched off. It can only be switched off if we know that all devices supported by a platform are capable of performing DMA transfers to all of memory (Some arches already support this: uml, avr32, sh sh64, parisc and IA64/Altix). In order to switch ZONE_DMA off conditionally, one would have to establish a scheme by which one can assure that no drivers are enabled that are only capable of doing I/O to a part of memory, or one needs to provide an alternate means of performing an allocation from a specific range of memory (like provided by alloc_pages_range()) and insure that all drivers use that call. In that case the arches alloc_dma_coherent() may need to be modified to call alloc_pages_range() instead of relying on GFP_DMA. Signed-off-by:Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- arch/alpha/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/alpha/Kconfig
- arch/arm/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm/Kconfig
- arch/arm26/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/arm26/Kconfig
- arch/i386/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/i386/Kconfig
- arch/m32r/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/m32r/Kconfig
- arch/m68k/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/m68k/Kconfig
- arch/mips/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/mips/Kconfig
- arch/powerpc/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/powerpc/Kconfig
- arch/ppc/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/ppc/Kconfig
- arch/sparc/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/sparc/Kconfig
- arch/sparc64/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/sparc64/Kconfig
- arch/x86_64/Kconfig 4 additions, 0 deletionsarch/x86_64/Kconfig
- mm/Kconfig 0 additions, 4 deletionsmm/Kconfig
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