Marek,

I've added the maintainers for mm/*.  Hopefully they can let us know if
this is good for v3.8...

thx,

Jason.

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 07:38:57AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> dmapool always calls dma_alloc_coherent() with GFP_ATOMIC flag, regardless
> the flags provided by the caller. This causes excessive pruning of
> emergency memory pools without any good reason. This patch changes the code
> to correctly use gfp flags provided by the dmapool caller. This should
> solve the dmapool usage on ARM architecture, where GFP_ATOMIC DMA
> allocations can be served only from the special, very limited memory pool.
> 
> Reported-by: Soren Moch <sm...@web.de>
> Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprow...@samsung.com>
> ---
>  mm/dmapool.c |   27 +++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
> index c5ab33b..86de9b2 100644
> --- a/mm/dmapool.c
> +++ b/mm/dmapool.c
> @@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ struct dma_page {           /* cacheable header for 
> 'allocation' bytes */
>       unsigned int offset;
>  };
>  
> -#define      POOL_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES    ((100 /* msec */ * HZ) / 1000)
> -
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(pools_lock);
>  
>  static ssize_t
> @@ -227,7 +225,6 @@ static struct dma_page *pool_alloc_page(struct dma_pool 
> *pool, gfp_t mem_flags)
>               memset(page->vaddr, POOL_POISON_FREED, pool->allocation);
>  #endif
>               pool_initialise_page(pool, page);
> -             list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list);
>               page->in_use = 0;
>               page->offset = 0;
>       } else {
> @@ -315,30 +312,21 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t 
> mem_flags,
>       might_sleep_if(mem_flags & __GFP_WAIT);
>  
>       spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
> - restart:
>       list_for_each_entry(page, &pool->page_list, page_list) {
>               if (page->offset < pool->allocation)
>                       goto ready;
>       }
> -     page = pool_alloc_page(pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -     if (!page) {
> -             if (mem_flags & __GFP_WAIT) {
> -                     DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
>  
> -                     __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> -                     __add_wait_queue(&pool->waitq, &wait);
> -                     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
> +     /* pool_alloc_page() might sleep, so temporarily drop &pool->lock */
> +     spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
>  
> -                     schedule_timeout(POOL_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
> +     page = pool_alloc_page(pool, mem_flags);
> +     if (!page)
> +             return NULL;
>  
> -                     spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
> -                     __remove_wait_queue(&pool->waitq, &wait);
> -                     goto restart;
> -             }
> -             retval = NULL;
> -             goto done;
> -     }
> +     spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
>  
> +     list_add(&page->page_list, &pool->page_list);
>   ready:
>       page->in_use++;
>       offset = page->offset;
> @@ -348,7 +336,6 @@ void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t 
> mem_flags,
>  #ifdef       DMAPOOL_DEBUG
>       memset(retval, POOL_POISON_ALLOCATED, pool->size);
>  #endif
> - done:
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->lock, flags);
>       return retval;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
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