[PATCH] dma-pool: use single atomic pool for both DMA zones
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Wed Jul 8 11:36:35 EDT 2020
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 12:35:34PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> > Which allows me to switch between ACPI/DT on the machine. In DT mode it
> > works fine now,
>
> Nice, would that count as a Tested-by from you?
>
> > but with ACPI I continue to have failures unless I
> > disable CMA via cma=0 on the kernel command line.
>
> Yes, I see why, in atomic_pool_expand() memory is allocated from CMA without
> checking its correctness. That calls for a separate fix. I'll try to think of
> something.
I think we need a dma_coherent_ok for the allocations from the
pool and then fall back to the next better one to get started. And
yes, CMA is a bit of a mess, that generally needs better checks.
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