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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] mm: cma: Ensure that reservations never cross the low/high mem boundary
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Hi Joonsoo,

Thank you for the review.

On Friday 24 October 2014 11:53:25 Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:33:47PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > Commit 95b0e655f914 ("ARM: mm: don't limit default CMA region only to
> > low memory") extended CMA memory reservation to allow usage of high
> > memory. It relied on commit f7426b983a6a ("mm: cma: adjust address limit
> > to avoid hitting low/high memory boundary") to ensure that the reserved
> > block never crossed the low/high memory boundary. While the
> > implementation correctly lowered the limit, it failed to consider the
> > case where the base..limit range crossed the low/high memory boundary
> > with enough space on each side to reserve the requested size on either
> > low or high memory.
> >
> > Rework the base and limit adjustment to fix the problem. The function
> > now starts by rejecting the reservation altogether for fixed
> > reservations that cross the boundary, then adjust the limit if
> > reservation from high memory is impossible, and finally first try to
> > reserve from high memory first and then falls back to low memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com>
> > ---
> >
> > mm/cma.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> > index 6b14346..b83597b 100644
> > --- a/mm/cma.c
> > +++ b/mm/cma.c
> > @@ -247,23 +247,38 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > /*
> > - * adjust limit to avoid crossing low/high memory boundary for
> > + * Adjust limit and base to avoid crossing low/high memory boundary
> > for
> > * automatically allocated regions
> > */
> >
> > - if (((limit == 0 || limit > memblock_end) &&
> > - (memblock_end - size < highmem_start &&
> > - memblock_end > highmem_start)) ||
> > - (!fixed && limit > highmem_start && limit - size <
> > highmem_start)) {
> > - limit = highmem_start;
> > - }
> >
> > - if (fixed && base < highmem_start && base+size > highmem_start) {
> > + /*
> > + * If allocating at a fixed base the request region must not cross
> > the
> > + * low/high memory boundary.
> > + */
> > + if (fixed && base < highmem_start && base + size > highmem_start) {
> > ret = -EINVAL;
> > pr_err("Region at %08lx defined on low/high memory boundary
> > (%08lx)\n",
> > (unsigned long)base, (unsigned long)highmem_start);
> > goto err;
> > }
> >
> > + /*
> > + * If the limit is unspecified or above the memblock end, its
> > effective
> > + * value will be the memblock end. Set it explicitly to simplify
> > further
> > + * checks.
> > + */
> > + if (limit == 0 || limit > memblock_end)
> > + limit = memblock_end;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If the limit is above the highmem start by less than the reserved
> > + * size allocation in highmem won't be possible. Lower the limit to
> > the
> > + * lowmem end.
> > + */
> > + if (limit > highmem_start && limit - size < highmem_start)
> > + limit = highmem_start;
> > +
>
> How about removing this check?
> Without this check, memblock_alloc_range would be failed and we can
> go fallback correctly. So, this is redundant, IMO.

Good point. I'll remove the check in v2.

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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