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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 1/4] arm: mvebu: increase atomic coherent pool size for armada 370/XP
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:28:45PM +0100, S?ren Moch wrote:
> resent as plain text, sorry.
>
>
> > For Armada 370/XP we have the same problem that for the commit
> > cb01b63, so we applied the same solution: "The default 256 KiB
> > coherent pool may be too small for some of the Kirkwood devices, so
> > increase it to make sure that devices will be able to allocate their
> > buffers with GFP_ATOMIC flag"
>
> I see a regression from linux-3.5 to linux-3.6 and think there might
> be a fundamental problem
> with this patch. On my Kirkwood system (guruplug server plus) with
> linux-3.6.2 I see following
> errors and corresponding malfunction even with further increased
> (2M, 4M) pool size:
>
> Oct 19 00:41:22 guru kernel: ERROR: 4096 KiB atomic DMA coherent
> pool is too small!
> Oct 19 00:41:22 guru kernel: Please increase it with coherent_pool=
> kernel parameter!
>
> So I had to downgrade to linux-3.5 which is running without problems.
>
> I use SATA and several DVB sticks (em28xx / drxk and dib0700).

I'm guess its the DVB sticks which are causing the problems. We have a
number of kirkwood devices with two SATA devices which had problems
until we extended the coherent_pool. The DVB sticks are probably take
more coherent RAM. There was also an issue found recently:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg203962.html

That conversation has gone quiet, but that could be because the
participants are at ELCE.

Andrew


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