linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: Fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 2 May 2018 18:21:46 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Michel Dänzer <michel@...nzer.net>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swiotlb: Fix inversed DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN test

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 04:31:09PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > No.  __GFP_NOWARN (and gfp_t flags in general) are the wrong interface
> > for dma allocations and just cause problems.  I actually plan to
> > get rid of the gfp_t argument in dma_alloc_attrs sooner, and only
> > allow either GFP_KERNEL or GFP_DMA passed in dma_alloc_coherent.
> 
> How about GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT? TTM uses that to opportunistically
> allocate huge pages (GFP_TRANSHUGE can result in unacceptably long
> delays with memory pressure).

Well, that is exactly what I don't want drivers to do - same for
__GFP_COMP in some drm code.  This very much assumes the page allocator
is used to back dma allocations, which very often it actually isn't, and
any use of magic gfp flags creates a tight coupling of consumers with a
specific implementation.

In general I can't think of a good reason not to actually use
GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT by default in the dma allocator unless
DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES is set.  Can you prepare a patch for that?