From: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
To: richard.henderson@linaro.org, mattst88@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linmag7@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] alpha: enable contiguous memory allocation for coherent DMA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 10:53:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261114095335.1283016-3-linmag7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261114095335.1283016-1-linmag7@gmail.com>
Select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS and reserve a default CMA area after the
machine has initialized its DMA windows. Prefer top-down placement
below the direct-map and usable RAM limits. Skip the default reservation
when no direct-map window exists. Explicit cma= ranges retain their
generic override semantics; top-down placement is a preference, not a
hard lower bound excluding the first 16 MiB.
Use dma_alloc_contiguous(), which rejects non-blocking callers, before
falling back to alloc_pages_exact(). Pair both paths with
dma_free_contiguous(), whose buddy fallback uses free_pages_exact().
Skip CMA on the GFP_DMA retry after a mapping failure so it cannot
return the same unsuitable CMA pages. Retain zeroing for CMA memory.
With CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y, the default CMA_SIZE_MBYTES setting reserves
16 MiB without a cma= argument. cma=0 disables the default area.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
---
.../features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt | 2 +-
arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c | 13 +++++++++----
arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
index 3c6ce35d704f..6cd205a991f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
+++ b/Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
-----------------------
| arch |status|
-----------------------
- | alpha: | TODO |
+ | alpha: | ok |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | ok |
diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index 6ccb2d230326..cddc1f3af209 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ config ALPHA
select HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H
select HAVE_ASM_MODVERSIONS
select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+ select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
select HAVE_GUP_FAST
select HAVE_KERNEL_BZIP2
select HAVE_KERNEL_GZIP
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
index 955b6ca61627..0337bcef26cb 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/pci_iommu.c
@@ -408,12 +408,17 @@ static void *alpha_pci_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
{
struct pci_dev *pdev = alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev);
void *cpu_addr;
- long order = get_order(size);
+ struct page *page;
gfp &= ~GFP_DMA;
try_again:
- cpu_addr = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp | __GFP_ZERO, order);
+ /* A low-memory retry must not return the same unsuitable CMA pages. */
+ page = (gfp & GFP_DMA) ? NULL : dma_alloc_contiguous(dev, size, gfp);
+ if (page)
+ cpu_addr = page_address(page);
+ else
+ cpu_addr = alloc_pages_exact(size, gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
if (! cpu_addr) {
printk(KERN_INFO "pci_alloc_consistent: "
"get_free_pages failed from %ps\n",
@@ -426,7 +431,7 @@ static void *alpha_pci_alloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
*dma_addrp = pci_map_single_1(pdev, virt_to_phys(cpu_addr), size, 0);
if (*dma_addrp == DMA_MAPPING_ERROR) {
- free_pages((unsigned long)cpu_addr, order);
+ dma_free_contiguous(dev, virt_to_page(cpu_addr), size);
if (alpha_mv.mv_pci_tbi || (gfp & GFP_DMA))
return NULL;
/* The address doesn't fit required mask and we
@@ -453,7 +458,7 @@ static void alpha_pci_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
{
struct pci_dev *pdev = alpha_gendev_to_pci(dev);
dma_unmap_single(&pdev->dev, dma_addr, size, DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL);
- free_pages((unsigned long)cpu_addr, get_order(size));
+ dma_free_contiguous(dev, virt_to_page(cpu_addr), size);
DBGA2("pci_free_consistent: [%llx,%zx] from %ps\n",
dma_addr, size, __builtin_return_address(0));
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
index c7b7ebcc47b6..0cd94c9023c1 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
#include <linux/panic_notifier.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/dma-map-ops.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/root_dev.h>
@@ -582,6 +583,20 @@ setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
/* Parse early options before reserving memory for DMA CMA. */
parse_early_param();
+ /*
+ * Prefer higher memory within the direct-map window, rather than
+ * consuming scarce low memory with a bottom-up CMA reservation.
+ * Explicit cma= ranges retain the generic command-line semantics.
+ */
+ if (__direct_map_size) {
+ bool bottom_up = memblock_bottom_up();
+
+ memblock_set_bottom_up(false);
+ dma_contiguous_reserve(min_t(phys_addr_t, __direct_map_size,
+ PFN_PHYS(max_low_pfn)));
+ memblock_set_bottom_up(bottom_up);
+ }
+
/* Reserve standard resources. */
reserve_std_resources();
--
2.43.0
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-14 9:53 [PATCH v2 0/2] alpha: enable DMA CMA support Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-14 9:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] alpha: parse early parameters before reserving contiguous memory Magnus Lindholm
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