[PATCH] riscv: make ZONE_DMA32 optional

[Alexandre Ghiti]

Hi Vladimir,

On 27/08/2024 13:36, Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:
> It is not necessary any RISCV platform has ZONE_DMA32.
>
> Example - if platform has no DRAM in [0..4G] region,
> it will report failure like below each boot.
>
> [    0.088709] swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:7, mode:0xcc4(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA32), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/
> [    0.088832] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.11.0-rc5 #30
> [    0.088864] Call Trace:
> [    0.088869] [<ffffffff800059f2>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
> [    0.088910] [<ffffffff805f328c>] show_stack+0x2c/0x38
> [    0.088957] [<ffffffff805fd800>] dump_stack_lvl+0x52/0x74
> [    0.088987] [<ffffffff805fd836>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
> [    0.089010] [<ffffffff801a23a8>] warn_alloc+0xf4/0x176
> [    0.089041] [<ffffffff801a3052>] __alloc_pages_noprof+0xc28/0xcb4
> [    0.089067] [<ffffffff80086eda>] atomic_pool_expand+0x62/0x1f8
> [    0.089090] [<ffffffff8080d674>] __dma_atomic_pool_init+0x46/0x9e
> [    0.089115] [<ffffffff8080d762>] dma_atomic_pool_init+0x96/0x11c
> [    0.089139] [<ffffffff80002146>] do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x1b2
> [    0.089158] [<ffffffff8080127c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x214/0x274
> [    0.089190] [<ffffffff805fefd8>] kernel_init+0x1e/0x10a
> [    0.089209] [<ffffffff8060748a>] ret_from_fork+0xe/0x1c
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev at mobileye.com>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/Kconfig | 2 +-
>   mm/Kconfig         | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index 0f3cd7c3a436..94a573112625 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ config RISCV
>   	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
>   	select ARCH_HAS_UBSAN
>   	select ARCH_HAS_VDSO_DATA
> +	select ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET if 64BIT
>   	select ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK if ACPI
>   	select ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE	if 64BIT && MMU
>   	select ARCH_OPTIONAL_KERNEL_RWX if ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
> @@ -200,7 +201,6 @@ config RISCV
>   	select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK
>   	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>   	select UACCESS_MEMCPY if !MMU
> -	select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
>   
>   config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>   	def_bool CC_IS_CLANG
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index b72e7d040f78..97c85da98e89 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ config ZONE_DMA
>   config ZONE_DMA32
>   	bool "Support DMA32 zone" if ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DMA_SET
>   	depends on !X86_32
> -	default y if ARM64
> +	default y if ARM64 || (RISCV && 64BIT)
>   
>   config ZONE_DEVICE
>   	bool "Device memory (pmem, HMM, etc...) hotplug support"


I'm wondering how distro kernels will deal with that since some 
platforms will need the ZONE_DMA32 and some others will break when 
enabled as you have shown.

Is there a way to make it optional at runtime instead?

Thanks,

Alex