Re: Regression in Linux next with dma cma changes

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Tue Feb 26 2019 - 15:15:29 EST


On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:01:55PM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Looks like commit d222e42e8816 ("dma-contiguous: do not allocate a
> single page from CMA area") caused a regression at least for
> omap dss where we now get the following error on init:
>
> omapdss_dispc 58001000.dispc:
> dispc_errata_i734_wa_init: dma_alloc_writecombine failed
>
> Any ideas what might be going wrong?

It's probably because the dma_alloc_from_contiguous() call in
this path doesn't rebound to allocate a normal single page.

And I guess we should have left the change within dma-direct.

Christoph, do you agree?

I am submitting a revert first.