Re: [PATCH 7/7] dma-mapping: reject __GFP_COMP in dma_alloc_attrs

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On 13.11.2022 17:35, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> DMA allocations can never be turned back into a page pointer, so
> requesting compound pages doesn't make sense and it can't even be
> supported at all by various backends.
>
> Reject __GFP_COMP with a warning in dma_alloc_attrs, and stop clearing
> the flag in the arm dma ops and dma-iommu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 17 -----------------
>   drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c |  3 ---
>   kernel/dma/mapping.c      |  8 ++++++++
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> index d7909091cf977..c135f6e37a00c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
> @@ -564,14 +564,6 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
>   	if (mask < 0xffffffffULL)
>   		gfp |= GFP_DMA;
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
> -	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
> -	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
> -	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
> -	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
> -	 */
> -	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
>   	args.gfp = gfp;
>   
>   	*handle = DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
> @@ -1093,15 +1085,6 @@ static void *arm_iommu_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size,
>   		return __iommu_alloc_simple(dev, size, gfp, handle,
>   					    coherent_flag, attrs);
>   
> -	/*
> -	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
> -	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
> -	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
> -	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
> -	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
> -	 */
> -	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
> -
>   	pages = __iommu_alloc_buffer(dev, size, gfp, attrs, coherent_flag);
>   	if (!pages)
>   		return NULL;
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> index 9297b741f5e80..f798c44e09033 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> @@ -744,9 +744,6 @@ static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(struct device *dev,
>   	/* IOMMU can map any pages, so himem can also be used here */
>   	gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
>   
> -	/* It makes no sense to muck about with huge pages */
> -	gfp &= ~__GFP_COMP;
> -
>   	while (count) {
>   		struct page *page = NULL;
>   		unsigned int order_size;
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/mapping.c b/kernel/dma/mapping.c
> index 33437d6206445..c026a5a5e0466 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/mapping.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/mapping.c
> @@ -498,6 +498,14 @@ void *dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
>   
>   	WARN_ON_ONCE(!dev->coherent_dma_mask);
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * DMA allocations can never be turned back into a page pointer, so
> +	 * requesting compound pages doesn't make sense (and can't even be
> +	 * supported at all by various backends).
> +	 */
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flag & __GFP_COMP))
> +		return NULL;
> +
>   	if (dma_alloc_from_dev_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, &cpu_addr))
>   		return cpu_addr;
>   

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland




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