From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Cc: Jing Xiangfeng <jingxiangfeng@huawei.com>,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH stable v5.10 0/7] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 16:24:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YETwL6QGWFyJTAzk@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <827b317d7f5da6e048806922098291faacdb19f9.camel@suse.de>
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 04:09:28PM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 15:17 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > > Hi Greg.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2021-03-04 at 14:46 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 03:33:12PM +0800, Jing Xiangfeng wrote:
> > > > > Using two distinct DMA zones turned out to be problematic. Here's an
> > > > > attempt go back to a saner default.
> > > >
> > > > What problem does this solve? How does this fit into the stable kernel
> > > > rules?
> > >
> > > We changed the way we setup memory zones in arm64 in order to cater for
> > > Raspberry Pi 4's weird DMA constraints: ZONE_DMA spans the lower 1GB of memory
> > > and ZONE_DMA32 the rest of the 32bit address space. Since you can't allocate
> > > memory that crosses zone boundaries, this broke crashkernel allocations on big
> > > machines. This series fixes all this by parsing the HW description and checking
> > > for DMA constrained buses. When not found, the unnecessary zone creation is
> > > skipped.
> >
> > What kernel/commit caused this "breakage"?
>
> 1a8e1cef7603 arm64: use both ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32
Thanks for the info, all now queued up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-07 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-03 7:33 [PATCH stable v5.10 0/7] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 1/7] arm64: mm: Move reserve_crashkernel() into mem_init() Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "arm64: mm: Move reserve_crashkernel() into mem_init()" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 2/7] arm64: mm: Move zone_dma_bits initialization into zone_sizes_init() Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "arm64: mm: Move zone_dma_bits initialization into zone_sizes_init()" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 3/7] of/address: Introduce of_dma_get_max_cpu_address() Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "of/address: Introduce of_dma_get_max_cpu_address()" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 4/7] of: unittest: Add test for of_dma_get_max_cpu_address() Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "of: unittest: Add test for of_dma_get_max_cpu_address()" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 5/7] arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on devicetree's dma-ranges Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on devicetree's dma-ranges" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 6/7] arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on early IORT scan Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "arm64: mm: Set ZONE_DMA size based on early IORT scan" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-03 7:33 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 7/7] mm: Remove examples from enum zone_type comment Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-07 15:25 ` Patch "mm: Remove examples from enum zone_type comment" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree gregkh
2021-03-04 13:46 ` [PATCH stable v5.10 0/7] arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA Greg KH
2021-03-04 14:05 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2021-03-04 14:17 ` Greg KH
2021-03-04 15:09 ` Nicolas Saenz Julienne
2021-03-07 15:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-03-08 3:20 ` Jing Xiangfeng
2021-03-08 9:58 ` Greg KH
2021-05-11 12:35 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-05-12 12:06 ` Greg KH
2021-06-23 6:59 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-23 7:12 ` Greg KH
2021-06-23 7:25 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-23 7:34 ` Greg KH
2021-06-23 8:01 ` Kefeng Wang
2021-06-25 10:19 ` Greg KH
2021-06-26 1:19 ` Kefeng Wang
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