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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s: Request DMA32 memory,
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On 05/12/2018 13:54, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 01:48:28PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote:
>> IOMMUs using ARMv7 short-descriptor format require page tables
>> (level 1 and 2) to be allocated within the first 4GB of RAM, even
>> on 64-bit systems.
> 
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
>> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA32
>> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA32
>> +#else
>> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_GFP_DMA GFP_DMA
>> +#define ARM_V7S_TABLE_SLAB_CACHE SLAB_CACHE_DMA
>> +#endif
> 
> How does using GFP_DMA make sense based on the above?  If the system
> has more than 32-bits worth of RAM it should be using GFP_DMA32, else
> GFP_KERNEL, not GFP_DMA for an arch defined small addressability pool.

32-bit Arm doesn't have ZONE_DMA32, but has (or at least had at the 
time) a 2GB ZONE_DMA. Whether we actually need that or not depends on 
how this all interacts with LPAE and highmem, but I'm not sure of those 
details off-hand.

Robin.