Monday 16 August 2010 12:17:36 Marin Mitov wrote: > On Saturday, August 14, 2010 08:33:09 pm Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > > Friday 13 August 2010 11:11:52 Marin Mitov napisał(a): > > > > On Friday, August 13, 2010 11:52:41 am Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote: > > > > > > Thursday 12 August 2010 23:38:17 Guennadi Liakhovetski napisał(a): > > > > > > > 1. We've discussed this dynamic switching a bit on IRC today. > > > > > > > The first reaction was - you probably should concentrate on > > > > > > > getting the contiguous version to work reliably. I.e., to > > > > > > > reserve the memory in the board init code similar, how other > > > > > > > contig users currently do it. > > > > > > > > > > > > I already tried before to find out how I could allocate memory at > > > > > > init without reinventing a new videobuf-dma-contig > > > > > > implementation. Since in the Documentation/video4linux/videobuf > > > > > > I've read that videobuf does not currently play well with drivers > > > > > > that play tricks by allocating DMA space at system boot time, > > > > > > I've implemented the alternate sg path. > > > > > > > > > > > > If it's not quite true what the documentation says and you can > > > > > > give me a hint how this could be done, I might try again. > > > > > > > > > > For an example look at > > > > > arch/arm/mach-mx3/mach-pcm037.c::pcm037_camera_alloc_dma(). > > > > > > Yes, this is the solution that suffers from the already discussed > > > limitation of not being able to remap a memory with different > > > attributes, which affects OMAP1 as well. > > > > > > > For preallocating dma-coherent memory for device personal use during > > > > device probe() time (when the memory is less fragmented compared to > > > > open() time) see also dt3155_alloc_coherent/dt3155_free_coherent in > > > > drivers/staging/dt3155v4l/dt3155vfl.c (for x86 arch, I do not know if > > > > it works for arm arch) > > > > > > With this workaround applied, I get much better results, thank you > > > Marin. However, it seems not bullet proof, since mmap still happens to > > > fail for a reason not quite clear to me: > > > > What exactly does this mean - happens to fail - you mean starting and > > stopping mplayer several times? Can you verify, that you're not leaking > > memory? That you're freeing all allocated DMA memory again? Are you using > > the same parameters to mplayer, right? > > > > As for the work-around - can you not do this in your board late-initcall > > function? > > > > Not sure whether and how one can get this in the mainline. This is in > > principle the same, as in the above dma_declare_coherent_memory() > > example, only open-coded without the ioremap. > > My believe is that dma_declare_coherent_memory() could be used if your > frame grabber has local RAM buffer (like video buffer if the graphic > adapters) defined by BAR - that is why you need ioremap(). If this RAM > turns out to be coherent you use dma_declare_coherent_memory() and any > further invocation of dma_alloc_coherent() will allocate from it (till it > is exosted). My use of dt3155_alloc_coherent()/dt3155_free_coherent() is to > allocate a block of coherent 4MB memory during driver probe() method and > use it latter (via videobuff_dma_contig framework)). > > > Maybe we can add a suitable function > > to the dma-alloc API... > > Could be of general use, I am thinking about this. This could be done by > just renaming dt3155_alloc_coherent()/dt3155_free_coherent() to something > acceptable (dma_reserve_coherent_memory()/dma_release_reserved_memory(), I > am open for suggestions) and export them. Should be added to > drivers/base/dma-coherent.c. Hi Marin, Since I've finaly managed to make use of your method without any previously observerd limitations (see below), I'm interested in it being implemented system-wide. Are you going to submit a patch? I would suggest creating one common function that allocates and fills the dev->dma_mem structure, and two wrappers that call it: a dma_declare_coherent_memory() replacement, that passes an ioremapped device memory address to the common fuction, and your proposed dma_reserve_coherent_memory(), that passes a pointer returned by the dma_alloc_coherent() instead. > > > [ 6067.220000] omap1-camera omap1-camera.0: OMAP1 Camera driver attached to camera 0 > > > [ 6067.650000] omap1-camera omap1-camera.0: omap1_cam_try_fmt: format 32315659 not found > > > [ 6067.680000] omap1-camera omap1-camera.0: omap1_cam_try_fmt: format 32315559 not found > > > [ 6068.480000] mplayer: page allocation failure. order:6, mode:0xd0 > > > [ 6068.500000] Backtrace: > > > [ 6068.520000] [<c0028950>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0028ea8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) > > > [ 6068.560000] r6:00000006 r5:000000d0 r4:c1bcf000 > > > [ 6068.590000] [<c0028e90>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0074e24>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x504/0x560) > > > [ 6068.620000] [<c0074920>] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x0/0x560) from [<c002ae14>] (__dma_alloc+0x108/0x354) > > > [ 6068.660000] [<c002ad0c>] (__dma_alloc+0x0/0x354) from [<c002b0ec>] (dma_alloc_coherent+0x58/0x64) > > > [ 6068.700000] [<c002b094>] (dma_alloc_coherent+0x0/0x64) from [<bf000a44>] (__videobuf_mmap_mapper+0x10c/0x374 [videobuf_dma_contig]) > > > [ 6068.740000] r7:c16934c0 r6:00000000 r5:c171baec r4:00000000 > > > [ 6068.770000] [<bf000938>] (__videobuf_mmap_mapper+0x0/0x374 [videobuf_dma_contig]) from [<c01f9a78>] (videobuf_mmap_mapper+0xc4/0x108) > > > [ 6068.810000] [<c01f99b4>] (videobuf_mmap_mapper+0x0/0x108) from [<c01fc1ac>] (soc_camera_mmap+0x80/0x140) > > > [ 6068.840000] r5:c1a3b4e0 r4:00000000 > > > [ 6068.870000] [<c01fc12c>] (soc_camera_mmap+0x0/0x140) from [<c01eeba8>] (v4l2_mmap+0x4c/0x5c) > > > [ 6068.900000] r7:c145c000 r6:000000ff r5:c16934c0 r4:00000000 > > > [ 6068.930000] [<c01eeb5c>] (v4l2_mmap+0x0/0x5c) from [<c0085de4>] (mmap_region+0x238/0x458) > > > [ 6068.970000] [<c0085bac>] (mmap_region+0x0/0x458) from [<c00862c0>] (do_mmap_pgoff+0x2bc/0x320) > > > [ 6069.000000] [<c0086004>] (do_mmap_pgoff+0x0/0x320) from [<c00863c0>] (sys_mmap_pgoff+0x9c/0xc8) > > > [ 6069.040000] [<c0086324>] (sys_mmap_pgoff+0x0/0xc8) from [<c0024f00>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c) > > > [ 6069.200000] Mem-info: > > > [ 6069.220000] Normal per-cpu: > > > [ 6069.240000] CPU 0: hi: 0, btch: 1 usd: 0 > > > [ 6069.260000] active_anon:676 inactive_anon:682 isolated_anon:0 > > > [ 6069.260000] active_file:422 inactive_file:2348 isolated_file:0 > > > [ 6069.260000] unevictable:177 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 > > > [ 6069.260000] free:1166 slab_reclaimable:0 slab_unreclaimable:0 > > > [ 6069.260000] mapped:1120 shmem:0 pagetables:121 bounce:0 > > > [ 6069.350000] Normal free:4664kB min:720kB low:900kB high:1080kB active_anon:2704kB inactive_anon:2728kB active_file:1688kB inactive_file:9392kB unevictable:708kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:32512kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:4480kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:0kB kernel_stack:552kB pagetables:484kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no > > > [ 6069.460000] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 > > > [ 6069.470000] Normal: 6*4kB 20*8kB 14*16kB 29*32kB 26*64kB 9*128kB 2*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4664kB [ 6069.530000] 2960 total pagecache pages > > > [ 6069.550000] 8192 pages of RAM > > > [ 6069.560000] 1322 free pages > > > [ 6069.580000] 1114 reserved pages > > > [ 6069.590000] 750 slab pages > > > [ 6069.610000] 2476 pages shared > > > [ 6069.630000] 0 pages swap cached > > > [ 6069.640000] omap1-camera omap1-camera.0: dma_alloc_coherent size 204800 failed > > > [ 6069.680000] omap1-camera omap1-camera.0: OMAP1 Camera driver detached from camera 0 > > > > > > Maybe I should preallocate a few more pages than will be actually used > > > by the driver? That was it. I was trying to reserve exact frame size, times number of buffers. Apparently, the frame size should be rounded up to the nearest power of 2 first for it to work as expected. Thanks, Janusz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
