linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 0/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use DMA32 zone for page tables

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Date:   Wed,  5 Dec 2018 13:48:25 +0800
From:   Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@...omium.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        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>,
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        hch@...radead.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use DMA32 zone for page tables

This is a follow-up to the discussion in [1], [2].

IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables
(level 1 and 2) to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even
on 64-bit systems.

For L1 tables that are bigger than a page, we can just use __get_free_pages
with GFP_DMA32 (on arm64 systems only, arm would still use GFP_DMA).

For L2 tables that only take 1KB, it would be a waste to allocate a full
page, so we considered 3 approaches:
 1. This series, adding support for GFP_DMA32 slab caches.
 2. genalloc, which requires pre-allocating the maximum number of L2 page
    tables (4096, so 4MB of memory).
 3. page_frag, which is not very memory-efficient as it is unable to reuse
    freed fragments until the whole page is freed. [3]

This series is the most memory-efficient approach.

[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-November/030876.html
[2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-December/031696.html
[3] https://patchwork.codeaurora.org/patch/671639/

Changes since v1:
 - Add support for SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 in slab and slub (patches 1/2)
 - iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s (patch 3):
   - Changed approach to use SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 added by the previous
     commit.
   - Use DMA or DMA32 depending on the architecture (DMA for arm,
     DMA32 for arm64).

Changes since v2:
 - Reworded and expanded commit messages
 - Added cache_dma32 documentation in PATCH 2/3.

v3 used the page_frag approach, see [3].

Nicolas Boichat (3):
  mm: slab/slub: Add check_slab_flags function to check for valid flags
  mm: Add support for kmem caches in DMA32 zone
  iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory, and improve debugging

 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab |  9 ++++++++
 drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c          | 20 +++++++++++++----
 include/linux/slab.h                        |  2 ++
 mm/internal.h                               | 22 +++++++++++++++++--
 mm/slab.c                                   | 10 +++------
 mm/slab.h                                   |  3 ++-
 mm/slab_common.c                            |  2 +-
 mm/slub.c                                   | 24 +++++++++++++++------
 8 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

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