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Message-ID: <20180709130931.GL22049@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 15:09:31 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from
cma_alloc()
On Mon 09-07-18 14:19:55, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> cma_alloc() function doesn't really support gfp flags other than
> __GFP_NOWARN, so convert gfp_mask parameter to boolean no_warn parameter.
>
> This will help to avoid giving false feeling that this function supports
> standard gfp flags and callers can pass __GFP_ZERO to get zeroed buffer,
> what has already been an issue: see commit dd65a941f6ba ("arm64:
> dma-mapping: clear buffers allocated with FORCE_CONTIGUOUS flag").
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Thanks! This makes perfect sense to me. If there is a real need for the
gfp_mask then we should start by defining the semantic first.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c | 2 +-
> drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/cma.h | 2 +-
> kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 3 ++-
> mm/cma.c | 8 ++++----
> mm/cma_debug.c | 2 +-
> 7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> index d4a3f4da409b..fc6bb9630a9c 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_builtin.c
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ struct page *kvm_alloc_hpt_cma(unsigned long nr_pages)
> VM_BUG_ON(order_base_2(nr_pages) < KVM_CMA_CHUNK_ORDER - PAGE_SHIFT);
>
> return cma_alloc(kvm_cma, nr_pages, order_base_2(HPT_ALIGN_PAGES),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + false);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_alloc_hpt_cma);
>
> diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> index 948ce82a7725..0fa1b6b1491a 100644
> --- a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void vmcp_response_alloc(struct vmcp_session *session)
> * anymore the system won't work anyway.
> */
> if (order > 2)
> - page = cma_alloc(vmcp_cma, nr_pages, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> + page = cma_alloc(vmcp_cma, nr_pages, 0, false);
> if (page) {
> session->response = (char *)page_to_phys(page);
> session->cma_alloc = 1;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> index 49718c96bf9e..3fafd013d80a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int ion_cma_allocate(struct ion_heap *heap, struct ion_buffer *buffer,
> if (align > CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT)
> align = CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT;
>
> - pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, GFP_KERNEL);
> + pages = cma_alloc(cma_heap->cma, nr_pages, align, false);
> if (!pages)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/cma.h b/include/linux/cma.h
> index bf90f0bb42bd..190184b5ff32 100644
> --- a/include/linux/cma.h
> +++ b/include/linux/cma.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ extern int cma_init_reserved_mem(phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t size,
> const char *name,
> struct cma **res_cma);
> extern struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
> - gfp_t gfp_mask);
> + bool no_warn);
> extern bool cma_release(struct cma *cma, const struct page *pages, unsigned int count);
>
> extern int cma_for_each_area(int (*it)(struct cma *cma, void *data), void *data);
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> index d987dcd1bd56..19ea5d70150c 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/contiguous.c
> @@ -191,7 +191,8 @@ struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, size_t count,
> if (align > CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT)
> align = CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT;
>
> - return cma_alloc(dev_get_cma_area(dev), count, align, gfp_mask);
> + return cma_alloc(dev_get_cma_area(dev), count, align,
> + gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN);
> }
>
> /**
> diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> index 5809bbe360d7..4cb76121a3ab 100644
> --- a/mm/cma.c
> +++ b/mm/cma.c
> @@ -395,13 +395,13 @@ static inline void cma_debug_show_areas(struct cma *cma) { }
> * @cma: Contiguous memory region for which the allocation is performed.
> * @count: Requested number of pages.
> * @align: Requested alignment of pages (in PAGE_SIZE order).
> - * @gfp_mask: GFP mask to use during compaction
> + * @no_warn: Avoid printing message about failed allocation
> *
> * This function allocates part of contiguous memory on specific
> * contiguous memory area.
> */
> struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
> - gfp_t gfp_mask)
> + bool no_warn)
> {
> unsigned long mask, offset;
> unsigned long pfn = -1;
> @@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
> pfn = cma->base_pfn + (bitmap_no << cma->order_per_bit);
> mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
> ret = alloc_contig_range(pfn, pfn + count, MIGRATE_CMA,
> - gfp_mask);
> + GFP_KERNEL | (no_warn ? __GFP_NOWARN : 0));
> mutex_unlock(&cma_mutex);
> if (ret == 0) {
> page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
>
> trace_cma_alloc(pfn, page, count, align)>
> - if (ret && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN)) {
> + if (ret && !no_warn) {
> pr_err("%s: alloc failed, req-size: %zu pages, ret: %d\n",
> __func__, count, ret);
> cma_debug_show_areas(cma);
> diff --git a/mm/cma_debug.c b/mm/cma_debug.c
> index f23467291cfb..ad6723e9d110 100644
> --- a/mm/cma_debug.c
> +++ b/mm/cma_debug.c
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static int cma_alloc_mem(struct cma *cma, int count)
> if (!mem)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - p = cma_alloc(cma, count, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> + p = cma_alloc(cma, count, 0, false);
> if (!p) {
> kfree(mem);
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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