Hello,

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:45:12AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:

Hello,

Russell King recently noticed that limiting default CMA region only to
low memory on ARM architecture causes serious memory management issues
with machines having a lot of memory (which is mainly available as high
memory). More information can be found the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/348441/

Those two patches removes this limit letting kernel to put default CMA
region into high memory when this is possible (there is enough high
memory available and architecture specific DMA limit fits).

Agreed. It should be from the beginning because CMA page is effectly
pinned if it is anonymous page and system has no swap.

This should solve strange OOM issues on systems with lots of RAM
(i.e. >1GiB) and large (>256M) CMA area.

I totally agree with the patchset although I didn't review code
at all.

Another topic:
It means it should be a problem still if system has CMA in lowmem
by some reason(ex, hardware limit or other purpose of CMA
rather than DMA subsystem)?

In that case, an idea that just popped in my head is to migrate
pages from cma area to highest zone because they are all
userspace pages which should be in there but not sure it's worth
to implement at this point because how many such cripple platform
are.

Just for the recording.

Best regards
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung R&D Institute Poland


Marek Szyprowski (2):
  mm: cma: adjust address limit to avoid hitting low/high memory
    boundary
  ARM: mm: don't limit default CMA region only to low memory

 arch/arm/mm/init.c |  2 +-
 mm/cma.c           | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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