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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
	Jesse Barker <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	Chunsang Jeong <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>,
	linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:27:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110705122721.GB8286@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107051344.31298.arnd@arndb.de>

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:44:31PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ config MIGRATION
> >  	  pages as migration can relocate pages to satisfy a huge page
> >  	  allocation instead of reclaiming.
> >  
> > +config CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE
> > +	bool
> > +	help
> > +	  This enables the use the MIGRATE_CMA migrate type, which lets lets CMA
> > +	  work on almost arbitrary memory range and not only inside ZONE_MOVABLE.
> > +
> >  config PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> >  	def_bool 64BIT || ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
> 
> This is currently only selected on ARM with your patch set. 

That's because CMA is targeted at solving the "we need massive contiguous
DMA areas" problem on ARM SoCs.

And it does this without addressing the technical architecture problems
surrounding multiple aliasing mappings with differing attributes which
actually make it unsuitable for use on ARM.  This is not the first time
I've pointed that out, and I'm now at the point of basically ignoring
this CMA work because I'm tired of constantly pointing this out.

My silence on this subject must not be taken as placid acceptance of the
approach, but revulsion at seemingly being constantly ignored and having
these patches pushed time and time again with nothing really changing on
that issue.

It will be a sad day if these patches make their way into mainline without
that being addressed, and will show contempt for architecture maintainers
if it does.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-05 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-05  7:41 [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:27   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:30   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:31   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:44   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:27     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 10:24   ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:02   ` [PATCH 6/8 RESEND] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 11:33   ` [PATCH 6/8] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 12:27     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:30       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 13:58         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-08 17:25           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-12 13:39             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-03 17:43       ` James Bottomley
2011-09-26 12:06         ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-26 13:00         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 13:58     ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:09       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 14:23         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 14:37           ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:59             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-09 14:57               ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-11 13:47                 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-11 19:01                   ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-12  5:34                     ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:51           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 15:48             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:05               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 16:09                 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-07-06 16:19                   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:15                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 19:03                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:02                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:31               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 19:10                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 20:23                   ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-07  5:29                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:56         ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 15:37           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 15:47             ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-14 12:29   ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: integrate CMA with dma-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05  7:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: S5PV210: example of CMA private area for FIMC device on Goni board Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:51   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:07 ` [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:28   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 22:11   ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-07  7:36     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-11 13:24     ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20  8:57 [PATCHv12 " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20  8:57 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 [PATCHv15 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski

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