linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU allocates pages from pool with GFP

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Message-ID: <20120823034935.GC5369@bbox>
Date:	Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:49:35 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@...dia.com>
Cc:	"pullip.cho@...sung.com" <pullip.cho@...sung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU allocates pages from pool with
 GFP_ATOMIC

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:36:48PM +0200, Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@...sung.com> wrote @ Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0200:
> 
> > vzalloc() call in __iommu_alloc_buffer() also causes BUG() in atomic context.
> 
> Right.
> 
> I've been thinking that kzalloc() may be enough here, since
> vzalloc() was introduced to avoid allocation failure for big chunk of
> memory, but I think that it's unlikely that the number of page array
> can be so big. So I propose to drop vzalloc() here, and just simply to
> use kzalloc only as below(*1).
> 
> For example, 
> 
> 1920(H) x 1080(W) x 4(bytes) ~= 8MiB
> 
> For 8 MiB buffer,
>   8(MiB) * 1024 = 8192(KiB)
>   8192(KiB) / 4(KiB/page) = 2048 pages
>   sizeof(struct page *) = 4 bytes
>   2048(pages) * 4(bytes/page) = 8192(bytes) = 8(KiB)
>   8(KiB) / 4(KiB/page) = 2 pages
> 
> If the above estimation is right(I hope;)), the necessary pages are
> _at most_ 2 pages. If the system gets into the situation to fail to
> allocate 2 contiguous pages, that's real the problem. I guess that
> that kind of fragmentation problem would be solved with page migration
> or something, especially nowadays devices are getting larger memories.

In atomic context, VM have no choice except relying on kswapd so
high order allocation can fail easily when memory fragementation
is high.

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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