From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeremy.linton@arm.com,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-pool: Do not allocate pool memory from CMA
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 18:58:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708165802.GA1131@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200708164936.9340-1-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:49:39PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> There is no guarantee to CMA's placement, so allocating a zone specific
> atomic pool from CMA might return memory from a completely different
> memory zone. So stop using it.
>
> Fixes: c84dc6e68a1d ("dma-pool: add additional coherent pools to map to gfp mask")
> Reported-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
> ---
>
> An more costly alternative would be adding an option to
> dma_alloc_from_contiguous() so it fails when the allocation doesn't fall
> in a specific zone.
Which seems like the right thing to do. But then again for 5.8 I think
something less invasive like your patch might be better. Waiting for
a few more opinions for now.
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-08 16:49 [PATCH] dma-pool: Do not allocate pool memory from CMA Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-08 16:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-07-08 23:14 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-07-09 21:47 ` David Rientjes via iommu
2020-07-21 7:21 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-21 8:39 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-21 8:54 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-21 11:15 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-21 11:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-21 11:37 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-21 12:16 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-21 12:15 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-21 12:45 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-21 15:22 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-21 16:27 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-23 5:14 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-24 9:36 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-24 11:06 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-24 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-24 16:19 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-24 16:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-27 17:56 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-28 9:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 9:30 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2020-07-28 10:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-31 1:10 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-07-31 7:19 ` Amit Pundir
2020-07-31 10:09 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
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