From: Christoph Hellwig
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Sent: 14 June 2019 14:47
Many architectures (e.g. arm, m68 and sh) have always used exact
allocation in their dma coherent allocator, which avoids a lot of
memory waste especially for larger allocations. Lift this behavior
into the generic allocator so that dma-direct and the generic IOMMU
code benefit from this behavior as well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
include/linux/dma-contiguous.h | 8 +++++---
kernel/dma/contiguous.c | 17 +++++++++++------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-contiguous.h b/include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
index c05d4e661489..2e542e314acf 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
@@ -161,15 +161,17 @@ static inline struct page *dma_alloc_contiguous(struct device *dev, size_t size,
gfp_t gfp)
{
int node = dev ? dev_to_node(dev) : NUMA_NO_NODE;
- size_t align = get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(size));
+ void *cpu_addr = alloc_pages_exact_node(node, size, gfp);
- return alloc_pages_node(node, gfp, align);
+ if (!cpu_addr)
+ return NULL;
+ return virt_to_page(p);
}
Does this still guarantee that requests for 16k will not cross a 16k boundary?
It looks like you are losing the alignment parameter.
There may be drivers and hardware that also require 12k allocates
to not cross 16k boundaries (etc).
David
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