On 8/5/21 1:54 AM, Baoquan He wrote: > On 06/24/21 at 11:47am, Robin Murphy wrote: >> On 2021-06-24 10:29, Baoquan He wrote: >>> On 06/24/21 at 08:40am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>>> So reduce the amount allocated. But the pool is needed for proper >>>> operation on systems with memory encryption. And please add the right >>>> maintainer or at least mailing list for the code you're touching next >>>> time. >>> >>> Oh, I thoutht it's memory issue only, should have run >>> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl. sorry. >>> >>> About reducing the amount allocated, it may not help. Because on x86_64, >>> kdump kernel doesn't put any page of memory into buddy allocator of DMA >>> zone. Means it will defenitely OOM for atomic_pool_dma initialization. >>> >>> Wondering in which case or on which device the atomic pool is needed on >>> AMD system with mem encrytion enabled. As we can see, the OOM will >>> happen too in kdump kernel on Intel system, even though it's not >>> necessary. > > Sorry for very late response, and thank both for your comments. > >> >> Hmm, I think the Kconfig reshuffle has actually left a slight wrinkle here. >> For DMA_DIRECT_REMAP=y we can assume an atomic pool is always needed, since >> that was the original behaviour anyway. However the implications of >> AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y are different - even if support is enabled, it still >> should only be relevant if mem_encrypt_active(), so it probably does make >> sense to have an additional runtime gate on that. > >> >> From a quick scan, use of dma_alloc_from_pool() already depends on >> force_dma_unencrypted() so that's probably fine already, but I think we'd >> need a bit of extra protection around dma_free_from_pool() to prevent >> gen_pool_has_addr() dereferencing NULL if the pools are uninitialised, even >> with your proposed patch as it is. Presumably nothing actually called >> dma_direct_free() when you tested this? > > Yes, enforcing the conditional check of force_dma_unencrypted() around > dma_free_from_pool sounds reasonable, just as we have done in > dma_alloc_from_pool(). > > I have tested this patchset on normal x86_64 systems and one amd system > with SME support, disabling atomic pool can fix the issue that there's no > managed pages in dma zone then requesting page from dma zone will cause > allocation failure. And even disabling atomic pool in 1st kernel didn't > cause any problem on one AMD EPYC system which supports SME. I am not > expert of DMA area, wondering how atomic pool is supposed to do in > SME/SEV system.
I think the atomic pool is used by the NVMe driver. My understanding is that driver will do a dma_alloc_coherent() from interrupt context, so it needs to use GFP_ATOMIC. The pool was created because dma_alloc_coherent() would perform a set_memory_decrypted() call, which can sleep. The pool eliminates that issue (David can correct me if I got that wrong). Thanks, Tom > > Besides, even though atomic pool is disabled, slub page for allocation > of dma-kmalloc also triggers page allocation failure. So I change to > take another way to fix them, please check v2 post. The atomic pool > disabling an be a good to have change. > > Thanks > Baoquan > _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
