On 12/7/18 7:16 AM, Nicolas Boichat wrote:

IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables
to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even on 64-bit systems.
On arm64, this is done by passing GFP_DMA32 flag to memory allocation
functions.

For IOMMU L2 tables that only take 1KB, it would be a waste to allocate
a full page using get_free_pages, so we considered 3 approaches:
 1. This patch, adding support for GFP_DMA32 slab caches.
 2. genalloc, which requires pre-allocating the maximum number of L2
    page tables (4096, so 4MB of memory).
 3. page_frag, which is not very memory-efficient as it is unable
    to reuse freed fragments until the whole page is freed.

This change makes it possible to create a custom cache in DMA32 zone
using kmem_cache_create, then allocate memory using kmem_cache_alloc.

We do not create a DMA32 kmalloc cache array, as there are currently
no users of kmalloc(..., GFP_DMA32). These calls will continue to
trigger a warning, as we keep GFP_DMA32 in GFP_SLAB_BUG_MASK.

This implies that calls to kmem_cache_*alloc on a SLAB_CACHE_DMA32
kmem_cache must _not_ use GFP_DMA32 (it is anyway redundant and
unnecessary).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <redacted>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>


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