RE: [PATCH] dma: Per-NUMA-node CMA should depend on NUMA

From: Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
Date: Mon Oct 26 2020 - 16:07:58 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Murphy [mailto:robin.murphy@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 1:25 AM
> To: hch@xxxxxx
> Cc: iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Song Bao
> Hua (Barry Song) <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH] dma: Per-NUMA-node CMA should depend on NUMA
>
> Offering DMA_PERNUMA_CMA to non-NUMA configs is pointless.
>

This is right.

> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/dma/Kconfig | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/Kconfig b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
> index c99de4a21458..964b74c9b7e3 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/dma/Kconfig
> @@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ if DMA_CMA
>
> config DMA_PERNUMA_CMA
> bool "Enable separate DMA Contiguous Memory Area for each NUMA
> Node"
> - default NUMA && ARM64
> + depends on NUMA
> + default ARM64

On the other hand, at this moment, only ARM64 is calling the init code
to get per_numa cma. Do we need to
depends on NUMA && ARM64 ?
so that this is not enabled by non-arm64?

> help
> Enable this option to get pernuma CMA areas so that devices like
> ARM64 SMMU can get local memory by DMA coherent APIs.
> --

Thanks
Barry