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| author | Richard Yao <[email protected]> | 2012-06-06 22:38:12 -0400 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2012-07-11 11:44:27 -0700 |
| commit | 36811b4430aaea8c8b91bbe7d812a26799865499 (patch) | |
| tree | b61719801e34ed403f48987c7f557a047639424f /README.markdown | |
| parent | 973e8269bd99f9440149892d598f8914113d0278 (diff) | |
Detect kernels that honor gfp flags passed to vmalloc()
zfsonlinux/spl@2092cf68d89a51eb0d6193aeadabb579dfc4b4a0 used
PF_MEMALLOC to workaround a bug in the Linux kernel where
allocations did not honor the gfp flags passed to vmalloc().
Unfortunately, PF_MEMALLOC has the side effect of permitting
allocations to allocate pages outside of ZONE_NORMAL. This
has been observed to result in the depletion of ZONE_DMA32.
A kernel patch is available in the Gentoo bug tracker for
this issue.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416685
This negates any benefit PF_MEMALLOC provides, so we introduce
an autotools check to disable the use of PF_MEMALLOC on
systems with patched kernels.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Closes #126
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