From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Vlastimil Babka' <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"cl@linux.com" <cl@linux.com>,
"John.p.donnelly@oracle.com" <John.p.donnelly@oracle.com>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 5/5] mm/slub: do not create dma-kmalloc if no managed pages in DMA zone
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:51:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67ff367b7a90452f8c009707a00e67b2@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7c1f169-f9b3-6930-f933-d69ab0287069@suse.cz>
From: Vlastimil Babka
> Sent: 15 December 2021 10:34
>
> On 12/15/21 08:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 07:03:35AM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> >> I'm not sure that allocating from ZONE_DMA32 instead of ZONE_DMA
> >> for kdump kernel is nice way to solve this problem.
> >
> > What is the problem with zones in kdump kernels?
>
> My understanding is that kdump kernel can only use physical memory that it
> got reserved by the main kernel, and the main kernel will reserve some block
> of memory that doesn't include any pages from ZONE_DMA (first 16MB of
> physical memory or whatnot).
...
Is there still any support for any of the very old hardware that could only
support 24bit DMA?
I think the AMD PCnet-ISA and PCnet-PCI ethernet (lance) were both 32bit masters.
(I don't remember ever having to worry about physical addresses.)
I'm sure I remember some old SCSI boards only being able to do 24bit DMA.
But I can't remember which bus interface they were.
Unlikely to be ISA because it has always been hard to get a motherboard
DMA channel into 'cascade mode'.
Might have been some EISA boards - anyone still use those?
So we are left with early PCI boards.
It really is worth looking at what actually needs it at all.
David
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-12-13 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mm_zone: add function to check if managed dma zone exists Baoquan He
2021-12-13 14:22 ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-16 10:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-13 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] dma/pool: create dma atomic pool only if dma zone has managed pages Baoquan He
2021-12-13 14:23 ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-13 12:27 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] mm/slub: do not create dma-kmalloc if no managed pages in DMA zone Baoquan He
2021-12-13 13:43 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-14 5:32 ` Baoquan He
2021-12-14 10:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-12-14 10:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-12-15 4:48 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-15 7:03 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-15 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-15 10:34 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-12-15 11:51 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-12-15 13:41 ` Baoquan He
2021-12-17 11:38 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-20 7:32 ` Baoquan He
2022-01-07 11:56 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-15 14:42 ` Baoquan He
2021-12-15 10:08 ` Baoquan He
2021-12-17 11:38 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-21 8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-22 12:37 ` Hyeonggon Yoo
2021-12-23 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-13 14:24 ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-14 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-14 17:07 ` john.p.donnelly
2021-12-15 7:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
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