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SubjectRE: [RFC 2/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU allocates pages from pool with GFP_ATOMIC
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Hi Hiroshi,

On Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:15 AM Hiroshi Doyu wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:58:34 +0200
> Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:37 PM Hiroshi Doyu wrote:
> >
> > > KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com> wrote @ Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:47:00 +0200:
> > >
> > > > vzalloc() call in __iommu_alloc_buffer() also causes BUG() in atomic context.
> > >
> > > Right.
> > >
> > > I've been thinking that kzalloc() may be enough here, since
> > > vzalloc() was introduced to avoid allocation failure for big chunk of
> > > memory, but I think that it's unlikely that the number of page array
> > > can be so big. So I propose to drop vzalloc() here, and just simply to
> > > use kzalloc only as below(*1).
> >
> > We already had a discussion about this, so I don't think it makes much sense to
> > change it back to kzalloc. This vmalloc() call won't hurt anyone. It should not
> > be considered a problem for atomic allocations, because no sane driver will try
> > to allocate buffers larger than a dozen KiB with GFP_ATOMIC flag. I would call
> > such try a serious bug, which we should not care here.
>
> Ok, I've already sent v2 just now, where, instead of changing it back,
> just with GFP_ATOMIC, kzalloc() would be selected, just in case. I guess
> that this would be ok(a bit safer?)

I've posted some comments to v2. If you agree with my suggestion, no changes around
those vmalloc() calls will be needed.

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center





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