Re: [PATCH 30/67] dma-direct: retry allocations using GFP_DMA for small masks

From: Vladimir Murzin
Date: Tue Jan 02 2018 - 11:43:28 EST


On 29/12/17 08:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> If we got back an allocation that wasn't inside the support coherent mask,
> retry the allocation using GFP_DMA.
>
> Based on the x86 code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/dma-direct.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/dma-direct.c b/lib/dma-direct.c
> index ab81de3ac1d3..f8467cb3d89a 100644
> --- a/lib/dma-direct.c
> +++ b/lib/dma-direct.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ check_addr(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr, size_t size,
> return true;
> }
>
> +static bool dma_coherent_ok(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys, size_t size)
> +{
> + return phys_to_dma(dev, phys) + size <= dev->coherent_dma_mask;

Shouldn't it be: phys_to_dma(dev, phys) + size - 1 <= dev->coherent_dma_mask ?

> +}
> +
> static void *dma_direct_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t gfp, unsigned long attrs)
> {
> @@ -35,11 +40,29 @@ static void *dma_direct_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> int page_order = get_order(size);
> struct page *page = NULL;
>
> +again:
> /* CMA can be used only in the context which permits sleeping */
> - if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp))
> + if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp)) {
> page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous(dev, count, page_order, gfp);
> + if (page && !dma_coherent_ok(dev, page_to_phys(page), size)) {
> + dma_release_from_contiguous(dev, page, count);
> + page = NULL;
> + }
> + }
> if (!page)
> page = alloc_pages_node(dev_to_node(dev), gfp, page_order);
> +
> + if (page && !dma_coherent_ok(dev, page_to_phys(page), size)) {
> + __free_pages(page, page_order);
> + page = NULL;
> +
> + if (dev->coherent_dma_mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(32) &&
> + !(gfp & GFP_DMA)) {
> + gfp = (gfp & ~GFP_DMA32) | GFP_DMA;
> + goto again;

Shouldn't we limit number of attempts?

Thanks
Vladimir