Re: [PATCH v3, RFC] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Use page_frag to request DMA32 memory

Will Deacon
2018-12-04T16:41:24Z

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 04:23:00PM +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.
>
> For level 1/2 tables, ensure GFP_DMA32 is used if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
> is defined (e.g. on arm64 platforms).
>
> For level 2 tables (1 KB), we use page_frag to allocate these pages,
> as we cannot directly use kmalloc (no slab cache for GFP_DMA32) or
> kmem_cache (mm/ code treats GFP_DMA32 as an invalid flag).
>
> One downside is that we only free the allocated page if all the
> 4 fragments (4 IOMMU L2 tables) are freed, but given that we
> usually only allocate limited number of IOMMU L2 tables, this
> should not have too much impact on memory usage: In the absolute
> worst case (4096 L2 page tables, each on their own 4K page),
> we would use 16 MB of memory for 4 MB of L2 tables.
>
> Also, print an error when the physical address does not fit in
> 32-bit, to make debugging easier in the future.
>
> Fixes: ad67f5a6545f ("arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>
> ---
>
> As an alternative to the series [1], which adds support for GFP_DMA32
> to kmem_cache in mm/. IMHO the solution in [1] is cleaner and more
> efficient, as it allows freed fragments (L2 tables) to be reused, but
> this approach does not require any core change.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10677529/, 3 patches
>
> drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
> index 445c3bde04800c..0de6a51eb6755f 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
> @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@
>
> #define ARM_V7S_TCR_PD1 BIT(5)
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA32
> +#else
> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA
> +#endif

We may as well include __GFP_ZERO in here too.
Anyway, this looks alright to me:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

But it sounds like you're still on the fence about this patch, so I won't
pick it up unless you ask explicitly.

Will