[PATCH 2/3] ARM: DMA-Mapping: print warning when atomic coherent allocation fails

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Mon Aug 20 06:47:27 EDT 2012


Print a loud warning when system runs out of memory from atomic coherent
pool to let users notice the potential problem.

Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
---
 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index d1cc9c1..25963ea 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -461,6 +461,9 @@ static void *__alloc_from_pool(size_t size, struct page **ret_page)
 		bitmap_set(pool->bitmap, pageno, count);
 		ptr = pool->vaddr + PAGE_SIZE * pageno;
 		*ret_page = pool->page + pageno;
+	} else {
+		pr_err("Atomic coherent pool too small!\n"
+		       "Please increase it with coherent_pool= kernel parameter!\n");
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
 
-- 
1.7.1.569.g6f426




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