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From: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
	"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	"Frank Rowand" <frowand.list@gmail.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Li Chen" <lchen@ambarella.com>,
	"Linux ARM" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"DTML" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] sample/reserved_mem: Introduce a sample of struct page and dio support to no-map rmem
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:17:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18267b7a61f.12b26bd91245310.4476663913461696630@linux.beauty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a30o1RLifV1TMqDJ26vLhVdOzz3wP6yPrayLV2GPxUtwQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Arnd,
---- On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:50:46 +0900  Arnd Bergmann  wrote --- 
 > Does your hardware require a fixed address for the buffer? If it can be
 > anywhere in memory (or at least within a certain range) but just has to
 > be physically contiguous, the normal way would be to use a CMA area
 > to allocate from, which gives you 'struct page' backed pages.

CMA does support Direct I/O, but it has its own issue: 
It does not guarantee that the memory previously borrowed by the OS will be returned to the device.

We've been plagued by examples like this in the past:
Many other kernel modules/subsystems have already allocated much memory from both non-CMA and CMA memory,
When our DSP driver got probed then, cma_alloc will fail in that non-CMA system memory is not enough
for CMA memory to migrate.  

Regards,
Li


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-11 12:24 [PATCH 0/4] add struct page and Direct I/O support to reserved memory Li Chen
2022-07-11 12:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] of: add struct page support to rmem Li Chen
2022-07-11 13:36   ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-07-11 14:51     ` Li Chen
2022-07-11 15:06       ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-07-12  3:13         ` Li Chen
2022-07-16  0:38   ` kernel test robot
2022-07-18 13:21   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-07-11 12:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/sparse: skip no-map memblock check when fill_subsection_map Li Chen
2022-07-11 14:53   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-12  4:23     ` Li Chen
2022-07-12  7:31       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-12  9:31         ` Li Chen
2022-07-14 18:45   ` kernel test robot
2022-07-11 12:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: mm: move memblock_clear_nomap after __add_pages Li Chen
2022-07-11 12:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] sample/reserved_mem: Introduce a sample of struct page and dio support to no-map rmem Li Chen
     [not found]   ` <CAK8P3a2Mr0ZMXGDx6htYEbBBtm4mubk-meSASJjPRK1j1O-hEA@mail.gmail.com>
2022-07-12  0:26     ` Li Chen
     [not found]       ` <CAK8P3a30o1RLifV1TMqDJ26vLhVdOzz3wP6yPrayLV2GPxUtwQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-07-12  9:58         ` Li Chen
     [not found]           ` <CAK8P3a3gX-JMh6E2X3rH+U37zhkA6b0+AJDtXCJfdZiMocxLjg@mail.gmail.com>
2022-07-12 10:55             ` Li Chen
2022-08-04  7:17         ` Li Chen [this message]
     [not found]           ` <CAK8P3a0zSGqj3YEi+i9yfSLk8-aJtyiY6Bj069cxCdErk81+cw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-08-04 10:07             ` Li Chen
     [not found]               ` <CAK8P3a2hyhzjYqeL1LY7WziDjXQJasg3jFe83eErzKgbfP-a3w@mail.gmail.com>
2022-08-05 15:28                 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-07-11 15:01 ` [PATCH 0/4] add struct page and Direct I/O support to reserved memory Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-11 16:05   ` Li Chen
2022-07-11 16:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-07-12  0:14       ` Li Chen

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