linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory, and improve debugging

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Message-ID: <01000167377e99b6-10666044-2e7d-4af3-9cae-9db9c1a9b279-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:18:23 +0000
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
cc:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Levin Alexander <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@...ovo.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Yong Wu <yong.wu@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...gle.com>, yingjoe.chen@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory,
 and improve debugging

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Robin Murphy wrote:

> On 21/11/2018 17:38, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Will Deacon wrote:
> >
> > > > +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA32
> >
> > SLAB_CACHE_DMA32??? WTH is going on here? We are trying to get rid of
> > the dma slab array.
>
> See the previous two patches in this series. If there's already a (better) way
> to have a kmem_cache which allocates its backing pages with GFP_DMA32, please
> do let us know.

Was not cced on the whole patchset. Trying to find it. Its best to
allocate DMA memory through the page based allocation functions.
dma_alloc_coherent() and friends.