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Detect kernels that honor gfp flags passed to vmalloc() #126
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2092cf6 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 on Gentoo Linux. 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]