On Mon, May 19 2014, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:57:47PM +0900, Gioh Kim wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for your advise, Michal Nazarewicz.
>> 
>> Having discuss with Joonsoo, I'm adding fallback allocation after 
>> __alloc_from_contiguous().
>> The fallback allocation works if CMA kernel options is turned on but CMA 
>> size is zero.
>
> Hello, Gioh.
>
> I also mentioned the case where devices have their specific cma_area.
> It means that this device needs memory with some contraint.
> Although I'm not familiar with DMA infrastructure, I think that
> we should handle this case.
>
> How about below patch?
>
> ------------>8----------------
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index 6b00be1..4023434 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
>       unsigned long *bitmap;
>       struct page *page;
>       struct page **pages;
> -     void *ptr;
> +     void *ptr = NULL;
>       int bitmap_size = BITS_TO_LONGS(nr_pages) * sizeof(long);
>  
>       bitmap = kzalloc(bitmap_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -393,7 +393,8 @@ static int __init atomic_pool_init(void)
>       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA))
>               ptr = __alloc_from_contiguous(NULL, pool->size, prot, &page,
>                                             atomic_pool_init);
> -     else
> +
> +     if (!ptr)
>               ptr = __alloc_remap_buffer(NULL, pool->size, gfp, prot, &page,
>                                          atomic_pool_init);
>       if (ptr) {
> @@ -701,10 +702,22 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t 
> size, dma_addr_t *handle,
>               addr = __alloc_simple_buffer(dev, size, gfp, &page);
>       else if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT))
>               addr = __alloc_from_pool(size, &page);
> -     else if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA))
> -             addr = __alloc_remap_buffer(dev, size, gfp, prot, &page, 
> caller);
> -     else
> -             addr = __alloc_from_contiguous(dev, size, prot, &page, caller);
> +     else {
> +             if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DMA_CMA)) {
> +                     addr = __alloc_from_contiguous(dev, size, prot,
> +                                                     &page, caller);
> +                     /*
> +                      * Device specific cma_area means that
> +                      * this device needs memory with some contraint.
> +                      * So, we can't fall through general remap allocation.
> +                      */
> +                     if (!addr && dev && dev->cma_area)
> +                             return NULL;
> +             }
> +
> +             addr = __alloc_remap_buffer(dev, size, gfp, prot,
> +                                                     &page, caller);
> +     }

__arm_dma_free will have to be changed to handle the fallback as well.
But perhaps Marek is right and there should be no fallback for regular
allocations?  Than again, non-CMA allocation should be performed at
least in the case of cma=0.

>  
>       if (addr)
>               *handle = pfn_to_dma(dev, page_to_pfn(page));

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