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authorNicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>2019-03-28 20:43:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-29 10:01:37 -0700
commit6d6ea1e967a246f12cfe2f5fb743b70b2e608d4a (patch)
tree61bc5fa271954c368ca139260fe32d257743eb06 /mm/slab_common.c
parente6a9467ea14bae8691b0f72c500510c42ea8edb8 (diff)
mm: add support for kmem caches in DMA32 zone
Patch series "iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use DMA32 zone for page tables", v6. This is a followup to the discussion in [1], [2]. IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables (level 1 and 2) to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even on 64-bit systems. For L1 tables that are bigger than a page, we can just use __get_free_pages with GFP_DMA32 (on arm64 systems only, arm would still use GFP_DMA). For L2 tables that only take 1KB, it would be a waste to allocate a full page, so we considered 3 approaches: 1. This series, adding support for GFP_DMA32 slab caches. 2. genalloc, which requires pre-allocating the maximum number of L2 page tables (4096, so 4MB of memory). 3. page_frag, which is not very memory-efficient as it is unable to reuse freed fragments until the whole page is freed. [3] This series is the most memory-efficient approach. stable@ note: We confirmed that this is a regression, and IOMMU errors happen on 4.19 and linux-next/master on MT8173 (elm, Acer Chromebook R13). The issue most likely starts from commit ad67f5a6545f ("arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32"), i.e. 4.15, and presumably breaks a number of Mediatek platforms (and maybe others?). [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-November/030876.html [2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2018-December/031696.html [3] https://patchwork.codeaurora.org/patch/671639/ This patch (of 3): IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even on 64-bit systems. On arm64, this is done by passing GFP_DMA32 flag to memory allocation functions. For IOMMU L2 tables that only take 1KB, it would be a waste to allocate a full page using get_free_pages, so we considered 3 approaches: 1. This patch, adding support for GFP_DMA32 slab caches. 2. genalloc, which requires pre-allocating the maximum number of L2 page tables (4096, so 4MB of memory). 3. page_frag, which is not very memory-efficient as it is unable to reuse freed fragments until the whole page is freed. This change makes it possible to create a custom cache in DMA32 zone using kmem_cache_create, then allocate memory using kmem_cache_alloc. We do not create a DMA32 kmalloc cache array, as there are currently no users of kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA32). These calls will continue to trigger a warning, as we keep GFP_DMA32 in GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK. This implies that calls to kmem_cache_*alloc on a SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 kmem_cache must _not_ use GFP_DMA32 (it is anyway redundant and unnecessary). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181210011504.122604-2-drinkcat@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com> Cc: Huaisheng Ye <yehs1@lenovo.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Yong Wu <yong.wu@mediatek.com> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@google.com> Cc: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab_common.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 03eeb8b7b4b1..58251ba63e4a 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(slab_caches_to_rcu_destroy_work,
SLAB_FAILSLAB | SLAB_KASAN)
#define SLAB_MERGE_SAME (SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT | SLAB_CACHE_DMA | \
- SLAB_ACCOUNT)
+ SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 | SLAB_ACCOUNT)
/*
* Merge control. If this is set then no merging of slab caches will occur.