On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 09:34 +1300, Tony Prisk wrote: > On Sun, 2012-10-14 at 18:28 +1300, Tony Prisk wrote: > > Up until 07 Oct, drivers/video/wm8505-fb.c was working fine, but on the > > 11 Oct when I did another pull from linus all of a sudden > > dma_alloc_coherent is failing to allocate the framebuffer any longer. > > > > I did a quick look back and found this: > > > > ARM: add coherent dma ops > > > > arch_is_coherent is problematic as it is a global symbol. This > > doesn't work for multi-platform kernels or platforms which can support > > per device coherent DMA. > > > > This adds arm_coherent_dma_ops to be used for devices which connected > > coherently (i.e. to the ACP port on Cortex-A9 or A15). The arm_dma_ops > > are modified at boot when arch_is_coherent is true. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This is the only patch lately that I could find (not that I would claim > > to be any good at finding things) that is related to the problem. Could > > it have caused the allocations to fail? > > > > Regards > > Tony P > > Have done a bit more digging and found the cause - not Rob's patch so > apologies. > > The cause of the regression is this patch: > > From f40d1e42bb988d2a26e8e111ea4c4c7bac819b7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:32:36 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 2/3] mm: compaction: acquire the zone->lock as late as > possible > > Up until then, the framebuffer allocation with dma_alloc_coherent(...) > was fine. From this patch onwards, allocations fail. > > I don't know how this patch would effect CMA allocations, but it seems > to be causing the issue (or at least, it's caused an error in > arch-vt8500 to become visible). > > Perhaps someone who understand -mm could explain the best way to > troubleshoot the cause of this problem? > > > Regards > Tony P > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel Have done a bit more testing.. Disabling Memory Compaction makes no difference. Disabling CMA fixes/hides the problem. ?!?!?! Regards Tony P -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>