[PATCH 7/7] dma-mapping: reject __GFP_COMP in dma_alloc_attrs

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Sun Nov 13 08:35:35 PST 2022


DMA allocations can never be turned back into a page pointer, so
requesting compound pages doesn't make sense and it can't even be
supported at all by various backends.

Reject __GFP_COMP with a warning in dma_alloc_attrs, and stop clearing
the flag in the arm dma ops and dma-iommu.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 17 -----------------
 drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c |  3 ---
 kernel/dma/mapping.c      |  8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
index d7909091cf977..c135f6e37a00c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c
@@ -564,14 +564,6 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
 	if (mask < 0xffffffffULL)
 		gfp |= GFP_DMA;
 
-	/*
-	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
-	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
-	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
-	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
-	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
-	 */
-	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
 	args.gfp = gfp;
 
 	*handle = DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
@@ -1093,15 +1085,6 @@ static void *arm_iommu_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size,
 		return __iommu_alloc_simple(dev, size, gfp, handle,
 					    coherent_flag, attrs);
 
-	/*
-	 * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
-	 * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
-	 * handle them.  The real problem is that this flag probably
-	 * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
-	 * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
-	 */
-	gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
-
 	pages = __iommu_alloc_buffer(dev, size, gfp, attrs, coherent_flag);
 	if (!pages)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
index 9297b741f5e80..f798c44e09033 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
@@ -744,9 +744,6 @@ static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(struct device *dev,
 	/* IOMMU can map any pages, so himem can also be used here */
 	gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
 
-	/* It makes no sense to muck about with huge pages */
-	gfp &= ~__GFP_COMP;
-
 	while (count) {
 		struct page *page = NULL;
 		unsigned int order_size;
diff --git a/kernel/dma/mapping.c b/kernel/dma/mapping.c
index 33437d6206445..c026a5a5e0466 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/mapping.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/mapping.c
@@ -498,6 +498,14 @@ void *dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!dev->coherent_dma_mask);
 
+	/*
+	 * DMA allocations can never be turned back into a page pointer, so
+	 * requesting compound pages doesn't make sense (and can't even be
+	 * supported at all by various backends).
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flag & __GFP_COMP))
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (dma_alloc_from_dev_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, &cpu_addr))
 		return cpu_addr;
 
-- 
2.30.2




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