Re: [patch] swiotlb: fix ignored DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN request

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Sat May 12 2018 - 03:11:39 EST


To conclude to this snail like thread (/me=walking wounded), with the
v4.16.8 hunk below, traces showing that swiotlb_alloc_coherent() was
being asked to not bother warning started showing up after the box had
been flogged for a while.

Whatever finally happens with swiotlb (seems to be in flux), other
folks meeting annoying gripeage can find bandaids in the interim.

The End

v4.16.8 !DMA_DIRECT_OPS
Xorg-3105 [001] .... 2156.711471: swiotlb_alloc_coherent+0xa7/0x1e0: yup
Xorg-3105 [001] .... 2156.711497: <stack trace>
=> ttm_dma_populate+0x23c/0x310 [ttm]
=> ttm_tt_bind+0x31/0x60 [ttm]
=> ttm_bo_handle_move_mem+0x527/0x580 [ttm]
=> ttm_bo_validate+0xfb/0x110 [ttm]
=> ttm_bo_init_reserved+0x289/0x450 [ttm]
=> ttm_bo_init+0x77/0xd0 [ttm]
=> nouveau_bo_new+0x3fc/0x5e0 [nouveau]
=> nouveau_gem_new+0x66/0x110 [nouveau]
=> nouveau_gem_ioctl_new+0x48/0xc0 [nouveau]
=> drm_ioctl_kernel+0x66/0xb0 [drm]
=> drm_ioctl+0x2a4/0x360 [drm]
=> nouveau_drm_ioctl+0x50/0xb0 [nouveau]
=> do_vfs_ioctl+0x92/0x5e0
=> SyS_ioctl+0x3b/0x70
=> do_syscall_64+0x74/0x1a0
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c
@@ -28,10 +28,8 @@ void *x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct
* swiotlb_alloc_coherent() will print a warning when the DMA
* memory allocation ultimately failed.
*/
- flags |= __GFP_NOWARN;
-
- vaddr = dma_generic_alloc_coherent(hwdev, size, dma_handle, flags,
- attrs);
+ vaddr = dma_generic_alloc_coherent(hwdev, size, dma_handle,
+ flags | __GFP_NOWARN, attrs);
if (vaddr)
return vaddr;