[PATCH] arm64: mm: set ZONE_DMA size based on early IORT scan

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Mon Oct 12 05:30:44 EDT 2020


On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 11:28, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 11:31:53AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > index f0599ae73b8d..829fa63c3d72 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > @@ -191,6 +191,14 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(unsigned long min, unsigned long max)
> >       unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES]  = {0};
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
> > +     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI)) {
> > +             extern unsigned int acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size(void);
>
> Nitpick: can we add this prototype to include/linux/acpi_iort.h?
>
> > +
> > +             zone_dma_bits = min(zone_dma_bits,
> > +                                 acpi_iort_get_zone_dma_size());
> > +             arm64_dma_phys_limit = max_zone_phys(zone_dma_bits);
> > +     }
> > +
> >       max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = PFN_DOWN(arm64_dma_phys_limit);
>
> I think we should initialise zone_dma_bits slightly earlier via
> arm64_memblock_init(). We'll eventually have reserve_crashkernel()
> called before this and it will make use of arm64_dma_phys_limit for
> "low" reservations:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20200907134745.25732-7-chenzhou10@huawei.com/
>

We don't have access to the ACPI tables yet at that point.



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