[tip:x86/mm] x86, mm: Allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable

From: tip-bot for David Rientjes
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 19:13:34 EST


Commit-ID: dc382fd5bcca7098a984705ed6ac880f539d068e
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/dc382fd5bcca7098a984705ed6ac880f539d068e
Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:54:10 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Mon, 16 May 2011 14:03:28 -0700

x86, mm: Allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable

ZONE_DMA is unnecessary for a large number of machines that do not
require less than 32-bit DMA addressing, e.g. ISA legacy DMA or PCI
cards with a restricted DMA address mask.

This patch allows users to disable ZONE_DMA for x86 if they know they
will not be using such devices with their kernel.

This prevents the VM from unnecessarily reserving a ratio of memory
(defaulting to 1/256th of system capacity) with lowmem_reserve_ratio
for such allocations when it will never be used.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.00.1105161353560.4353@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++-
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 ++
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 648fca4..0eb801a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ config MMU
def_bool y

config ZONE_DMA
- def_bool y
+ bool "DMA memory allocation support" if EXPERT
+ default y
+ help
+ DMA memory allocation support allows devices with less than 32-bit
+ addressing to allocate within the first 16MB of address space.
+ Disable if no such devices will be used.
+
+ If unsure, say Y.

config SBUS
bool
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index 2cde0a34..29f7c6d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -678,8 +678,10 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
{
unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];
memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] =
virt_to_phys((char *)MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+#endif
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = highend_pfn;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 0404bb3..d865c4a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -616,7 +616,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];

memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = MAX_DMA_PFN;
+#endif
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = MAX_DMA32_PFN;
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_pfn;

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