On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 04:23:00PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote: > 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 level 1/2 tables, ensure GFP_DMA32 is used if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 > is defined (e.g. on arm64 platforms). > > For level 2 tables (1 KB), we use page_frag to allocate these pages, > as we cannot directly use kmalloc (no slab cache for GFP_DMA32) or > kmem_cache (mm/ code treats GFP_DMA32 as an invalid flag). > > One downside is that we only free the allocated page if all the > 4 fragments (4 IOMMU L2 tables) are freed, but given that we > usually only allocate limited number of IOMMU L2 tables, this > should not have too much impact on memory usage: In the absolute > worst case (4096 L2 page tables, each on their own 4K page), > we would use 16 MB of memory for 4 MB of L2 tables. I think this needs to be documemented in the code. That is move the explanation about into a comment in the code.
