On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:20:07 +0100 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On 11/21/2012 9:36 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:08:52 +0100 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > On 11/20/2012 8:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:31:45 +0100 > > > > Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > dmapool always calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC flag, > > > > > regardless the flags provided by the caller. This causes excessive > > > > > pruning of emergency memory pools without any good reason. Additionaly, > > > > > on ARM architecture any driver which is using dmapools will sooner or > > > > > later trigger the following error: > > > > > "ERROR: 256 KiB atomic DMA coherent pool is too small! > > > > > Please increase it with coherent_pool= kernel parameter!". > > > > > Increasing the coherent pool size usually doesn't help much and only > > > > > delays such error, because all GFP_ATOMIC DMA allocations are always > > > > > served from the special, very limited memory pool. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Is this problem serious enough to justify merging the patch into 3.7? > > > > And into -stable kernels? > > > > > > I wonder if it is a good idea to merge such change at the end of current > > > -rc period. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. > > > > But what we do sometimes if we think a patch needs a bit more > > real-world testing before backporting is to merge it into -rc1 in the > > normal merge window, and tag it for -stable backporting. That way it > > gets a few weeks(?) testing in mainline before getting backported. > > I just wondered that if it gets merged to v3.7-rc7 there won't be much time > for real-world testing before final v3.7 release. This patch is in > linux-next for over a week and I'm not aware of any issues, but -rc releases > gets much more attention and testing than linux-next tree. > > If You think it's fine to put such change to v3.7-rc7 I will send a pull > request and tag it for stable asap. > What I'm suggesting is that it be merged for 3.8-rc1 with a -stable tag, then it will be backported into 3.7.x later on. -- 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>