I took your patch and was trying to fit it over the stable/swiotlb-0.8.4 branch and when I did so a found couple of things.. > > @@ -215,14 +222,14 @@ swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size(size_t default_size) > > bytes = io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT; You should also initialize the __io_tlb_start array first: __io_tlb_start = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order((io_tlb_nslabs / IO_TLB_SEGSIZE) * sizeof(char *))); if (!__io_tlb_start) goto cleanup1; > > > > while ((SLABS_PER_PAGE << order) > IO_TLB_MIN_SLABS) { > > - io_tlb_start = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_DMA | __GFP_NOWARN, > > - order); > > - if (io_tlb_start) > > + __io_tlb_start[0] = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_DMA | __GFP_NOWARN, > > + order); Otherwise this will be a NULL pointer exception. > > + if (__io_tlb_start[0]) > > break; > > order--; > > } > > > > - if (!io_tlb_start) > > + if (!__io_tlb_start[0]) > > goto cleanup1; > > > > if (order != get_order(bytes)) { > > @@ -231,13 +238,12 @@ swiotlb_late_init_with_default_size(size_t default_size) > > io_tlb_nslabs = SLABS_PER_PAGE << order; > > bytes = io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT; > > } > > - io_tlb_end = io_tlb_start + bytes; > > - memset(io_tlb_start, 0, bytes); > > + memset(__io_tlb_start[0], 0, bytes); > > > > /* > > * Allocate and initialize the free list array. This array is used > > * to find contiguous free memory regions of size up to IO_TLB_SEGSIZE > > - * between io_tlb_start and io_tlb_end. > > + * between io_tlb_start. > > */ > > io_tlb_list = (unsigned int *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, > > get_order(io_tlb_nslabs * sizeof(int))); > > @@ -280,9 +286,8 @@ cleanup3: > > sizeof(int))); > > io_tlb_list = NULL; > > cleanup2: > > - io_tlb_end = NULL; > > - free_pages((unsigned long)io_tlb_start, order); > > - io_tlb_start = NULL; > > + free_pages((unsigned long)__io_tlb_start[0], order); > > + __io_tlb_start[0] = NULL; > > cleanup1: > > io_tlb_nslabs = req_nslabs; > > return -ENOMEM; > > @@ -300,7 +305,7 @@ void __init swiotlb_free(void) > > get_order(io_tlb_nslabs * sizeof(phys_addr_t))); > > free_pages((unsigned long)io_tlb_list, get_order(io_tlb_nslabs * > > sizeof(int))); > > - free_pages((unsigned long)io_tlb_start, > > + free_pages((unsigned long)__io_tlb_start[0], > > get_order(io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT)); That isn't exactly right I think. You are de-allocating the first array, which size is determined by 'order'. Probably 10. And you not freeing the array, just the first entry. > > } else { > > free_bootmem_late(__pa(io_tlb_overflow_buffer), > > @@ -309,15 +314,36 @@ void __init swiotlb_free(void) > > io_tlb_nslabs * sizeof(phys_addr_t)); > > free_bootmem_late(__pa(io_tlb_list), > > io_tlb_nslabs * sizeof(int)); > > - free_bootmem_late(__pa(io_tlb_start), > > + free_bootmem_late(__pa(__io_tlb_start[0]), > > io_tlb_nslabs << IO_TLB_SHIFT); I think you need this: free_bootmem_late(__pa(__io_tlb_start[0]), IO_TLB_SEGSIZE << IO_TLB_SHIFT); free_bootmem_late(__pa(__io_tlb_start), (io_tlb_nslabs / IO_TLB_SEGSIZE) * sizeof(char *)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html