Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory, and improve debugging

Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-05T13:54:14Z

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 01:48:28PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
> IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables
> (level 1 and 2) to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even
> on 64-bit systems.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA32
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA32
> +#else
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA
> +#endif

How does using GFP_DMA make sense based on the above? If the system
has more than 32-bits worth of RAM it should be using GFP_DMA32, else
GFP_KERNEL, not GFP_DMA for an arch defined small addressability pool.