Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86, swiotlb: Try coherent allocations with __GFP_NOWARN

[Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 01:46:48PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 03:45:51PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:28:54PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:29:08PM +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
> > > > index 77dd0ad..79b2291 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
> > > > @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ void *x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *hwdev, size_t size,
> > > >  {
> > > >  	void *vaddr;
> > > >  
> > > > +	/*
> > > > +	 * When booting a kdump kernel in high memory these allocations are very
> > > > +	 * likely to fail, as there are by default only 8MB of low memory to
> > > > +	 * allocate from. So disable the warnings from the allocator when this
> > > > +	 * happens.  SWIOTLB also implements fall-backs for failed allocations.
> > > > +	 */
> > > > +	flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
> > > 
> > > Should this perhaps then have 'if (kdump_kernel)' around it since
> > > the use-case seems to be kdump related?
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't think this is entirely kdump specific. It can also be
> > triggered on a non-kdump kernel, it is just much more unlikely. But
> > maybe I should change the comment to something like:
> > 
> > 	/*
> > 	 * Don't print a warning when the first allocation attempt
> > 	 * fails. The swiotlb_alloc_coherent() function will print a
> > 	 * warning when the allocation of DMA memory ultimatly failed.
> > 	 */
> 
> Much better. Thank you.
> > 
> > This takes the kdump-specifics out of this change (in the end
> > kdump-kernel loaded high is just a case where this failure is much more
> > likely).
> 
> <nods>

Okay, thanks. I'll update the patch.


	Joerg