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From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Levin Alexander <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
	Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tfiga@google.com>,
	yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory, and improve debugging
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:18:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01000167377e99b6-10666044-2e7d-4af3-9cae-9db9c1a9b279-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a034e2c3-8933-caba-a113-ca08372da2b9@arm.com>

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Robin Murphy wrote:

> On 21/11/2018 17:38, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Will Deacon wrote:
> >
> > > > +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA32
> >
> > SLAB_CACHE_DMA32??? WTH is going on here? We are trying to get rid of
> > the dma slab array.
>
> See the previous two patches in this series. If there's already a (better) way
> to have a kmem_cache which allocates its backing pages with GFP_DMA32, please
> do let us know.

Was not cced on the whole patchset. Trying to find it. Its best to
allocate DMA memory through the page based allocation functions.
dma_alloc_coherent() and friends.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-21 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-11  9:03 [PATCH v2 0/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use DMA32 zone for page tables Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-11  9:03 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: slab/slub: Add check_slab_flags function to check for valid flags Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-11  9:03 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: Add support for SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-21 18:32   ` Christopher Lameter
2018-11-22  0:52     ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-11  9:03 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory, and improve debugging Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-21 16:46   ` Will Deacon
2018-11-21 17:38     ` Christopher Lameter
2018-11-21 17:43       ` Robin Murphy
2018-11-21 18:18         ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2018-11-21 18:02     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-22  1:20       ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-23 12:15         ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-21 18:20 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use DMA32 zone for page tables Christopher Lameter
2018-11-21 21:38   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-21 22:26     ` Robin Murphy
2018-11-22  1:05       ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-22  2:35       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-22  5:56         ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-22  8:26         ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-22 15:16           ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-11-22 15:19             ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-22  8:23       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-23  3:04         ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-23  5:37           ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-11-23 12:23         ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-11-23 12:30           ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-26  8:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-11-28  8:55             ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-12-04  9:37 ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-12-04 14:35   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-12-05  2:04     ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-12-05  5:51       ` Nicolas Boichat
2018-12-05 14:41       ` Will Deacon
2018-12-04 16:28   ` Will Deacon

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