Re: [PATCH v2] dma-pool: Fix too large DMA pools on medium systems

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Jun 24 2020 - 12:20:58 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 09:38:15AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
>
> can you try the patch below? This just converts the huge allocations
> in mptbase to use GFP_KERNEL. Christophe (added to Cc) actually has
> a scripted conversion for the rest that he hasn't posted yet, so I'll
> aim for the minimal version here.
>

The previously failing test passes with this patch applied on top of the
mainline kernel.

Guenter

>
> diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> index 68aea22f2b8978..5216487db4fbea 100644
> --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> @@ -1324,13 +1324,13 @@ mpt_host_page_alloc(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc, pIOCInit_t ioc_init)
> return 0; /* fw doesn't need any host buffers */
>
> /* spin till we get enough memory */
> - while(host_page_buffer_sz > 0) {
> -
> - if((ioc->HostPageBuffer = pci_alloc_consistent(
> - ioc->pcidev,
> - host_page_buffer_sz,
> - &ioc->HostPageBuffer_dma)) != NULL) {
> -
> + while (host_page_buffer_sz > 0) {
> + ioc->HostPageBuffer =
> + dma_alloc_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev,
> + host_page_buffer_sz,
> + &ioc->HostPageBuffer_dma,
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (ioc->HostPageBuffer) {
> dinitprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_DEBUG_FMT
> "host_page_buffer @ %p, dma @ %x, sz=%d bytes\n",
> ioc->name, ioc->HostPageBuffer,
> @@ -2741,8 +2741,8 @@ mpt_adapter_disable(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
> sz = ioc->alloc_sz;
> dexitprintk(ioc, printk(MYIOC_s_INFO_FMT "free @ %p, sz=%d bytes\n",
> ioc->name, ioc->alloc, ioc->alloc_sz));
> - pci_free_consistent(ioc->pcidev, sz,
> - ioc->alloc, ioc->alloc_dma);
> + dma_free_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, sz, ioc->alloc,
> + ioc->alloc_dma);
> ioc->reply_frames = NULL;
> ioc->req_frames = NULL;
> ioc->alloc = NULL;
> @@ -2751,8 +2751,8 @@ mpt_adapter_disable(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
>
> if (ioc->sense_buf_pool != NULL) {
> sz = (ioc->req_depth * MPT_SENSE_BUFFER_ALLOC);
> - pci_free_consistent(ioc->pcidev, sz,
> - ioc->sense_buf_pool, ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma);
> + dma_free_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, sz, ioc->sense_buf_pool,
> + ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma);
> ioc->sense_buf_pool = NULL;
> ioc->alloc_total -= sz;
> }
> @@ -2802,7 +2802,7 @@ mpt_adapter_disable(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
> "HostPageBuffer free @ %p, sz=%d bytes\n",
> ioc->name, ioc->HostPageBuffer,
> ioc->HostPageBuffer_sz));
> - pci_free_consistent(ioc->pcidev, ioc->HostPageBuffer_sz,
> + dma_free_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, ioc->HostPageBuffer_sz,
> ioc->HostPageBuffer, ioc->HostPageBuffer_dma);
> ioc->HostPageBuffer = NULL;
> ioc->HostPageBuffer_sz = 0;
> @@ -4497,7 +4497,8 @@ PrimeIocFifos(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
> ioc->name, sz, sz, num_chain));
>
> total_size += sz;
> - mem = pci_alloc_consistent(ioc->pcidev, total_size, &alloc_dma);
> + mem = dma_alloc_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, total_size,
> + &alloc_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (mem == NULL) {
> printk(MYIOC_s_ERR_FMT "Unable to allocate Reply, Request, Chain Buffers!\n",
> ioc->name);
> @@ -4574,8 +4575,8 @@ PrimeIocFifos(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->FreeQlock, flags);
>
> sz = (ioc->req_depth * MPT_SENSE_BUFFER_ALLOC);
> - ioc->sense_buf_pool =
> - pci_alloc_consistent(ioc->pcidev, sz, &ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma);
> + ioc->sense_buf_pool = dma_alloc_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, sz,
> + &ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (ioc->sense_buf_pool == NULL) {
> printk(MYIOC_s_ERR_FMT "Unable to allocate Sense Buffers!\n",
> ioc->name);
> @@ -4613,18 +4614,16 @@ PrimeIocFifos(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
>
> if (ioc->alloc != NULL) {
> sz = ioc->alloc_sz;
> - pci_free_consistent(ioc->pcidev,
> - sz,
> - ioc->alloc, ioc->alloc_dma);
> + dma_free_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, sz, ioc->alloc,
> + ioc->alloc_dma);
> ioc->reply_frames = NULL;
> ioc->req_frames = NULL;
> ioc->alloc_total -= sz;
> }
> if (ioc->sense_buf_pool != NULL) {
> sz = (ioc->req_depth * MPT_SENSE_BUFFER_ALLOC);
> - pci_free_consistent(ioc->pcidev,
> - sz,
> - ioc->sense_buf_pool, ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma);
> + dma_free_coherent(&ioc->pcidev->dev, sz, ioc->sense_buf_pool,
> + ioc->sense_buf_pool_dma);
> ioc->sense_buf_pool = NULL;
> }
>