linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dma-direct: provide the ability to reserve per-numa CMA

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Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:22:44 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        "m.szyprowski@...sung.com" <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
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        Steve Capper <steve.capper@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] dma-direct: provide the ability to reserve
 per-numa CMA

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:19:03PM +0000, Song Bao Hua (Barry Song) wrote:
> I am sorry I haven't got your point yet. Do you mean something like the below?
> 
> arch/arm64/Kconfig:
> config CMDLINE
> 	string "Default kernel command string"
> -	default ""
> +	default "pernuma_cma=16M"
> 	help
> 	  Provide a set of default command-line options at build time by
> 	  entering them here. As a minimum, you should specify the the
> 	  root device (e.g. root=/dev/nfs).

Yes.

> A background of the current code is that Linux distributions can usually use arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> directly to build kernel. cmdline can be easily ignored during the generation of Linux distributions.

I've not actually heard of a distro shipping defconfig yet..

> 
> > if a way to expose this in the device tree might be useful, but people
> > more familiar with the device tree and the arm code will have to chime
> > in on that.
> 
> Not sure if it is an useful user case as we are using ACPI but not device tree since it is an ARM64
> server with NUMA.

Well, than maybe ACPI experts need to chime in on this.

> > This seems to have lost the dma_contiguous_default_area NULL check.
> 
> cma_alloc() is doing the check by returning NULL if cma is NULL.
> 
> struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
> 		       bool no_warn)
> {
> 	...
> 	if (!cma || !cma->count)
> 		return NULL;
> }
> 
> But I agree here the code can check before calling cma_alloc_aligned.

Oh, indeed.  Please split the removal of the NULL check in to a prep
patch then.