[RFC 0/4] ARM: dma-mapping: IOMMU atomic allocation

Hi Hiroshi,

On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:20 PM Hiroshi Doyu wrote:

The commit e9da6e9 "ARM: dma-mapping: remove custom consistent dma
region" breaks the compatibility with existing drivers. This causes
the following kernel oops(*1). That driver has called dma_pool_alloc()
to allocate memory from the interrupt context, and it hits
BUG_ON(in_interrpt()) in "get_vm_area_caller()". This patch seris
fixes this problem with making use of the pre-allocate atomic memory
pool which DMA is using in the same way as DMA does now.

Any comment would be really appreciated.

I was working on the similar patches, but You were faster. ;-)

Basically the patch no 1 and 2 are fine, but I don't like the changes proposed in 
patch 3 and 4. You should not alter the attributes provided by the user nor make any
assumptions that such attributes has been provided - drivers are allowed to call 
dma_alloc_attrs() directly. Please rework your patches to avoid such approach.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center