Re: [PATCH 2/7] RDMA/hfi1: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc_coherent

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On 2022-11-16 14:40, Dean Luick wrote:
On 11/13/2022 10:35 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
dma_alloc_coherent is an opaque allocator that only uses the GFP_ flags
for allocation context control.  Don't pass GFP_USER which doesn't make
sense for a kernel DMA allocation or __GFP_COMP which makes no sense
for an allocation that can't in any way be converted to a page pointer.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
  drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c | 21 +++------------------
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c
index 436372b314312..24c0f0d257fc9 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/init.c
@@ -1761,17 +1761,11 @@ int hfi1_create_rcvhdrq(struct hfi1_devdata *dd, struct hfi1_ctxtdata *rcd)
       unsigned amt;

       if (!rcd->rcvhdrq) {
-             gfp_t gfp_flags;
-
               amt = rcvhdrq_size(rcd);

-             if (rcd->ctxt < dd->first_dyn_alloc_ctxt || rcd->is_vnic)
-                     gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
-             else
-                     gfp_flags = GFP_USER;
               rcd->rcvhdrq = dma_alloc_coherent(&dd->pcidev->dev, amt,
                                                 &rcd->rcvhdrq_dma,
-                                               gfp_flags | __GFP_COMP);
+                                               GFP_KERNEL);

A user context receive header queue may be mapped into user space.  Is that not the use case for GFP_USER?  The above conditional is what decides.

Why do you think GFP_USER should be removed here?

Coherent DMA buffers are allocated by a kernel driver or subsystem for the use of a device managed by that driver or subsystem, and thus they fundamentally belong to the kernel as proxy for the device. Any coherent DMA buffer may be mapped to userspace with the dma_mmap_*() interfaces, but they're never a "userspace allocation" in that sense.

Thanks,
Robin.



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