[PATCH 0/2] ARM: Remove lowmem limit for default CMA region

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Aug 26 16:10:00 PDT 2014


On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:45:12 +0200 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com> wrote:

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

What do we think is the priority on these fixes?  3.17 or 3.18?



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