In the current code, three atomic memory pools are provided, atomic_pool_kernel, atomic_pool_dma, atomic_pool_dma32, initialized with flag GFP_KERNEL, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32. And they are always enabled, even though 'coherent_pool=0' is specified in kernel command line. In some cases, atomic pool may not be needed. And worse, it even will cause problem. E.g in kdump kernel of x86_64, it will cause OOM for atomic_pool_dma initialization. Because there isn't available memory for buddy allocatory in DMA zone of kdump kernel since commit f1d4d47c5851 ("x86/setup: Always reserve the first 1M of RAM"). The OOM will cause panic if panic_on_oom is added into kdump kernel. So change code to adjust the existing coherent_pool to allow user to disable atomic pool by specifying 'coherent_pool=0'. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/dma/pool.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/dma/pool.c b/kernel/dma/pool.c index 5f84e6cdb78e..5a85804b5beb 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/pool.c +++ b/kernel/dma/pool.c @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ static struct gen_pool *atomic_pool_kernel __ro_after_init; static unsigned long pool_size_kernel; /* Size can be defined by the coherent_pool command line */ -static size_t atomic_pool_size; +static unsigned long atomic_pool_size = -1; /* Dynamic background expansion when the atomic pool is near capacity */ static struct work_struct atomic_pool_work; @@ -188,11 +188,14 @@ static int __init dma_atomic_pool_init(void) { int ret = 0; + if (!atomic_pool_size) + return 0; + /* * If coherent_pool was not used on the command line, default the pool * sizes to 128KB per 1GB of memory, min 128KB, max MAX_ORDER-1. */ - if (!atomic_pool_size) { + if (atomic_pool_size == -1) { unsigned long pages = totalram_pages() / (SZ_1G / SZ_128K); pages = min_t(unsigned long, pages, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES); atomic_pool_size = max_t(size_t, pages << PAGE_SHIFT, SZ_128K); -- 2.17.2