linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mmc: core Drop BLK_BOUNCE

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Message-Id: <74835eb6-5625-4ff5-87ef-0edc96dba0fc@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 22:34:36 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
 "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>, "Ulf Hansson" <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
 "linux-mmc @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: core Drop BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, at 20:38, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 12:58 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, at 00:41, Linus Walleij wrote:
>
>> > The only difference is where the CPU have to read/write the
>> > buffers really, before the change those were all guaranteed to
>> > be in lowmem (bounced there by the block core), now they can
>> > also be in highmem, but sg_miter will deal with it for sure.
>>
>> Yes, that was my point: The sg_miter() code is meant to
>> handle exactly this case with highmem data, but as far
>> as I can tell, that code path has never been tested on
>> 32-bit systems with highmem but without BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH.
>
> It's actually possible to enforce testing of highmem scatterlists
> to an MMC card (one need to be careful as this is destructive
> testing!)
> drivers/mmc/core/mmc_test.c
>
> ...but the one relevant target I have is a Kirkwood and it only
> has 128 MB of memory so highmem won't be exercised.

I think you can pass a vmalloc= command line option to the
kernel that will increase the size of the vmalloc are at
the expense of lowmem and give you some highmem instead.

      Arnd