[PATCH] mm: dmapool: use provided gfp flags for alldma_alloc_coherent() calls

[Marek Szyprowski]

dmapool always calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC flag, regardless
the flags provided by the caller. This causes excessive pruning of
emergency memory pools without any good reason. This patch changes the code
to correctly use gfp flags provided by the dmapool caller. This should
solve the dmapool usage on ARM architecture, where GFP_ATOMIC DMA
allocations can be served only from the special, very limited memory pool.

Reported-by: Soren Moch <smoch@xxxxxx>
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/dmapool.c |   27 +++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
index c5ab33b..86de9b2 100644
--- a/mm/dmapool.c
+++ b/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ struct dma_page {		/* cacheable header for 'allocation' bytes */
 	unsigned int offset;
 };
 
-#define	POOL_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES	((100 /* msec */ * HZ) / 1000)
-
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pools_lock);
 
 static ssize_t
@@ -227,7 +225,6 @@ static struct dma_page *pool_alloc_page(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags)
 		memset(page->vaddr, POOL_POISON_FREED, pool->allocation);
 #endif
 		pool_initialise_page(pool, page);
-		list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list);
 		page->in_use = 0;
 		page->offset = 0;
 	} else {
@@ -315,30 +312,21 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
 	might_sleep_if(mem_flags & __GFP_WAIT);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
- restart:
 	list_for_each_entry(page, &pool->page_list, page_list) {
 		if (page->offset < pool->allocation)
 			goto ready;
 	}
-	page = pool_alloc_page(pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (!page) {
-		if (mem_flags & __GFP_WAIT) {
-			DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
 
-			__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
-			__add_wait_queue(&pool->waitq, &wait);
-			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
+	/* pool_alloc_page() might sleep, so temporarily drop &pool->lock */
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
 
-			schedule_timeout(POOL_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
+	page = pool_alloc_page(pool, mem_flags);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
 
-			spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
-			__remove_wait_queue(&pool->waitq, &wait);
-			goto restart;
-		}
-		retval = NULL;
-		goto done;
-	}
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 
+	list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list);
  ready:
 	page->in_use++;
 	offset = page->offset;
@@ -348,7 +336,6 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags,
 #ifdef	DMAPOOL_DEBUG
 	memset(retval, POOL_POISON_ALLOCATED, pool->size);
 #endif
- done:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
 	return retval;
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5

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