linux-kernel - Re: regression breaks lowmem reserved RAM

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Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:53:31 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Yang Shi <yang.shi@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: regression breaks lowmem reserved RAM

Looking a bit closer into this regression the reason this can't be
right is that dma_addr common default is BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH and most
machines have less than 4G. So if you do:

    if (b_pfn <= (min_t(u64, 0xffffffff, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
	dma = 1

that will translate to:

     if (BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH <= BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH)
     	dma = 1

So for 99% of hardware this will trigger unnecessary GFP_DMA
allocations and isa pooling operations.

Also note how the 32bit code still does b_pfn < blk_max_low_pfn.

I guess this is what you were looking after. I didn't verify but as
far as I can tell, this will stop the regression with isa dma
operations at boot for 99% of blkdev/memory combinations out there and
I guess this fixes the setups with >4G of ram and 32bit pci cards as
well (this also retains symmetry with the 32bit code).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>

diff --git a/block/blk-settings.c b/block/blk-settings.c
index 1344a0e..5713f7e 100644
--- a/block/blk-settings.c
+++ b/block/blk-settings.c
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ void blk_queue_bounce_limit(struct request_queue *q, u64 dma_addr)
 	/* Assume anything <= 4GB can be handled by IOMMU.
 	   Actually some IOMMUs can handle everything, but I don't
 	   know of a way to test this here. */
-	if (b_pfn <= (min_t(u64, 0xffffffff, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
+	if (b_pfn < (min_t(u64, 0x100000000UL, BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH) >> PAGE_SHIFT))
 		dma = 1;
 	q->bounce_pfn = max_low_pfn;
 #else
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