Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:06:58 +0000 | From | Hyeonggon Yoo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/page_alloc.c: do not warn allocation failure on zone DMA if no managed pages |
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 04:32:53PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > On 12/25/21 at 05:53am, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 05:44:35PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote: > ...... > > > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c > > > index 7c7a0b5de2ff..843bc8e5550a 100644 > > > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c > > > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c > > > @@ -4204,7 +4204,8 @@ void warn_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, nodemask_t *nodemask, const char *fmt, ...) > > > va_list args; > > > static DEFINE_RATELIMIT_STATE(nopage_rs, 10*HZ, 1); > > > > > > - if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs)) > > > + if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs) || > > > + (gfp_mask & __GFP_DMA) && !has_managed_dma()) > > > return; > > > > > > > Warning when there's always no page in DMA zone is unnecessary > > and it confuses user. > > > > The patch looks good. > > Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> > > > > And there is some driers that allocate memory with GFP_DMA > > even if that flag is unnecessary. We need to do cleanup later. > > Thanks for reviewing and giving out some awesome suggestions. >
You're welcome. Impressed to see you keep following the issue.
> > > > Baoquan Are you planning to do it soon? > > I want to help that. > > Yes, I had the plan and have done a little part. I talked to Christoph > about my thought. I planned to collect all kmalloc(GFP_DMA) callsite and > post a RFC mail, CC mailing list and maintainers related. Anyone > interested or know one or several callsites well can help. >
Good to hear that. I want to help by reviewing and discussing your patches.
> Now, Christoph has handled all under drviers/scsi, and post patches to > fix them.
Oh, didn't know he was already doing that work.
> I have gone throug those places and found out below callsites > where we can remove GFP_DMA directly when calling kmalloc() since not > necessary.
Note that some of them might have 24bit addressing limitation. we need to ask maintainer or read its specification to know GFP_DMA is unnecessary.
> And even found one place kmalloc(GFP_DMA32).
kmalloc(GFP_DMA32) is wrong because we do not create DMA32 kmalloc caches.
> (HEAD -> master) vxge: don't use GFP_DMA > mtd: rawnand: marvell: don't use GFP_DMA > HID: intel-ish-hid: remove wrong GFP_DMA32 flag > ps3disk: don't use GFP_DMA > atm: iphase: don't use GFP_DMA
> Next, I will send a RFC mail to contain those suspect callsites. We can > track them and can help if needed. Suggest to change them with: > 1) using dma_alloc_xx , or dma_map_xx after kmalloc() > 2) using alloc_pages(GFP_DMA) instead
Well if the buffer is not sensitive to performance, we can just allocate with kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) so that dma api can use proper bounce buffer.
if the buffer is for fastpath, I think we should convert them to use dma_alloc_pages() to get a proper buffer.
Note that most of devices are already calling dma_map_xx directly or indirectly (think about block layer for example) if they don't use deprecated virt_to_bus() or friends.
But if the device do not use DMA API at all, we have few choices. maybe convert them to use alloc_pages(GFP_DMA/GFP_DMA32) I guess?
> When we fix, we all post patch with subject key words as > 'xxxx: don't use GFP_DMA'. Christoph has posted patch with the similar > subject, we can search subject to get all related patches for later back > porting. > > I will add you to CC when sending. Could be tomorrow. Any suggestion or thought? > > Thanks > Baoquan >
Thank you! Hyeonggon
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