From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
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Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] of/fdt: Update zone_dma_bits when running in bcm2711
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 18:10:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201009171051.GL23638@gaia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXFuqw3qNRAB78OzvMws+t7=B6L8pASA36D2fxXobbvpUA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 06:23:06PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 17:24, Lorenzo Pieralisi
> <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> wrote:
> > We can move this check to IORT code and call it from arm64 if it
> > can be made to work.
>
> Finding the smallest value in the IORT, and assigning it to
> zone_dma_bits if it is < 32 should be easy. But as I understand it,
> having these separate DMA and DMA32 zones is what breaks kdump, no? So
> how is this going to fix the underlying issue?
If zone_dma_bits is 32, ZONE_DMA32 disappears into ZONE_DMA (GFP_DMA32
allocations fall back to ZONE_DMA).
kdump wants DMA-able memory and, without a 30-bit ZONE_DMA, that would
be the bottom 32-bit. With the introduction of ZONE_DMA, this suddenly
became 1GB. We could change kdump to allocate ZONE_DMA32 but this one
may also be small as it lost 1GB to ZONE_DMA. However, the kdump kernel
would need to be rebuilt without ZONE_DMA since it won't have any. IIRC
(it's been a while since I looked), the kdump allocation couldn't span
multiple zones.
In a separate thread, we try to fix kdump to use allocations above 4G as
a fallback but this only fixes platforms with enough RAM (and maybe it's
only those platforms that care about kdump).
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-09 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 16:17 [PATCH 0/4] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] of/fdt: Update zone_dma_bits when running in bcm2711 Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 17:15 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-01 17:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-01 17:31 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 20:02 ` Rob Herring
2020-10-02 11:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-08 10:05 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-08 10:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-08 19:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-09 3:59 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-10-09 8:37 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-09 7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-09 7:37 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-09 8:36 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-09 9:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-09 13:33 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-09 15:24 ` Lorenzo Pieralisi
2020-10-09 16:23 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-09 17:10 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2020-10-10 10:36 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-10-10 10:53 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-10 12:38 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-12 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-12 8:47 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-02 9:05 ` kernel test robot
2020-10-01 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] dma-direct: Turn zone_dma_bits default value into a define Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: Default to 32-bit ZONE_DMA Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 17:19 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-01 16:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: Update DMA zones description Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-10-01 17:19 ` Catalin Marinas
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