linux-kernel - Re: DMA-API: cacheline tracking ENOMEM, dma-debug disabled due to nouveau ?

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Message-ID: <CAKMK7uGb0twmXUXS5GVN0mmGW-csWH524psJFfdFYuou9YXFDw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:45:11 +0200
From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:     Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>
Cc:     Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Nouveau Dev <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "list@....net:IOMMU DRIVERS <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Joerg
        Roedel <joro@...tes.org>," <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: DMA-API: cacheline tracking ENOMEM, dma-debug disabled due to
 nouveau ?

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:31 PM Corentin Labbe
<clabbe.montjoie@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 07:49:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:50:33PM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > Since lot of release (at least since 4.19), I hit the following error message:
> > > DMA-API: cacheline tracking ENOMEM, dma-debug disabled
> > >
> > > After hitting that, I try to check who is creating so many DMA mapping and see:
> > > cat /sys/kernel/debug/dma-api/dump | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort | uniq -c
> > >       6 ahci
> > >     257 e1000e
> > >       6 ehci-pci
> > >    5891 nouveau
> > >      24 uhci_hcd
> > >
> > > Does nouveau having this high number of DMA mapping is normal ?
> >
> > Yeah seems perfectly fine for a gpu.
>
> Note that it never go down and when I terminate my X session, it stays the same.
> So without any "real" GPU work, does it is still normal to have so many active mapping ?

Might just be the dma_alloc cache. It should go down under memory
pressure I think. Otherwise might also be a leak.

> For example, when doing some transfer, the ahci mapping number changes and then always go down to 6.

gpu drivers tend to cache everything, all the time ...
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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