Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] iommu/dma: Respect __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 in incoming GFP flags

[Tomasz Figa]

Hi Joerg,

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 10:55:55PM +0900, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> Current implementation of __iommu_dma_alloc_pages() keeps adding
>> __GFP_HIGHMEM to GFP flags regardless of whether other zone flags are
>> already included in the incoming flags. If __GFP_DMA or __GFP_DMA32 is
>> set at the same time as __GFP_HIGHMEM, the allocation fails due to
>> invalid zone flag combination.
>>
>> Fix this by checking for __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 in incoming GFP flags
>> and adding __GFP_HIGHMEM only if they are not present.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Isn't it better to mask out __GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA32 in the allocation
> flags and only take them into account for iova allocation?
>
> When the IOMMU re-maps the DMA to this memory it doesn't matter where it
> is in system memory.

It's a platform specific knowledge and I'd say the generic helper is
not where it should be decided. Please see my reply to Robin for v1
[1].

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9810921/

Best regards.
Tomasz