On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 06:46:22PM +0000, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > +static void *iommu_dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
> > + dma_addr_t *handle, enum dma_data_direction dir, gfp_t gfp)
> > +{
> > + if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp)) {
> > + struct page *page;
> > +
> > + page = dma_common_alloc_pages(dev, size, handle, dir, gfp);
> > + if (!page)
> > + return NULL;
> > + return page_address(page);
> > + }
> > +
> > + return iommu_dma_alloc_remap(dev, size, handle, gfp | __GFP_ZERO,
> > + PAGE_KERNEL, 0);
>
> iommu_dma_alloc_remap() makes use of the DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_SINGLE_PAGES attribute
> to optimize the allocations for devices which don't care about how contiguous
> the backing memory is. Do you think we could add an attrs argument to this
> function and pass it there?
>
> As ARM is being moved to the common iommu-dma layer as well, we'll probably
> make use of the argument to support the DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute
> to
> conserve the vmalloc area.
We could probably at it. However I wonder why this is something the
drivers should care about. Isn't this really something that should
be a kernel-wide policy for a given system?
