linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: dma-mapping: fallback allocation for cma failure

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2014 16:05:52 +0900
From:	Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@....com>
To:	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
CC:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@...sung.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	이건호 <gunho.lee@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: dma-mapping: fallback allocation for cma failure

That case, device-specific coherent memory allocation, is handled at dma_alloc_coherent in arm_dma_alloc.
__dma_alloc handles only general coherent memory allocation.

I'm sorry missing mention about it.


2014-05-20 오후 3:52, Joonsoo Kim 쓴 글:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:57:47PM +0900, Gioh Kim wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your advise, Michal Nazarewicz.
>>
>> Having discuss with Joonsoo, I'm adding fallback allocation after __alloc_from_contiguous().
>> The fallback allocation works if CMA kernel options is turned on but CMA size is zero.
>
> Hello, Gioh.
>
> I also mentioned the case where devices have their specific cma_area.
> It means that this device needs memory with some contraint.
> Although I'm not familiar with DMA infrastructure, I think that
> we should handle this case.
>
> How about below patch?
>
> ------------>8----------------
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 6b00be1..4023434 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
>   	unsigned long *bitmap;
>   	struct page *page;
>   	struct page **pages;
> -	void *ptr;
> +	void *ptr = NULL;
>   	int bitmap_size = BITS_TO_LONGS(nr_pages) * sizeof(long);
>
>   	bitmap = kzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
>   	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA))
>   		ptr = __alloc_from_contiguous(NULL, pool->size, prot, &page,
>   					      atomic_pool_init);
> -	else
> +
> +	if (!ptr)
>   		ptr = __alloc_remap_buffer(NULL, pool->size, gfp, prot, &page,
>   					   atomic_pool_init);
>   	if (ptr) {
> @@ -701,10 +702,22 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
>   		addr = __alloc_simple_buffer(dev, size, gfp, &page);
>   	else if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT))
>   		addr = __alloc_from_pool(size, &page);
> -	else if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA))
> -		addr = __alloc_remap_buffer(dev, size, gfp, prot, &page, caller);
> -	else
> -		addr = __alloc_from_contiguous(dev, size, prot, &page, caller);
> +	else {
> +		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA)) {
> +			addr = __alloc_from_contiguous(dev, size, prot,
> +							&page, caller);
> +			/*
> +			 * Device specific cma_area means that
> +			 * this device needs memory with some contraint.
> +			 * So, we can't fall through general remap allocation.
> +			 */
> +			if (!addr && dev && dev->cma_area)
> +				return NULL;
> +		}
> +
> +		addr = __alloc_remap_buffer(dev, size, gfp, prot,
> +							&page, caller);
> +	}
>
>   	if (addr)
>   		*handle = pfn_to_dma(dev, page_to_pfn(page));
>
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