Re: [PATCH 08/13] swiotlb-xen: always use dma-direct helpers to alloc coherent pages

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 9/2/19 9:03 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> index b8808677ae1d..f9dd4cb6e4b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/swiotlb-xen.c
> @@ -299,8 +299,7 @@ xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *hwdev, size_t size,
>  	 * address. In fact on ARM virt_to_phys only works for kernel direct
>  	 * mapped RAM memory. Also see comment below.
>  	 */
> -	ret = xen_alloc_coherent_pages(hwdev, size, dma_handle, flags, attrs);
> -
> +	ret = dma_direct_alloc(hwdev, size, dma_handle, flags, attrs);


If I am reading __dma_direct_alloc_pages() correctly there is a path
that will force us to use GFP_DMA32 and as Juergen pointed out in
another message that may not be desirable.

-boris