On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 11:45:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> I'm not sure this is entirely right.
>
> Let's say the mask is 30 bits. You will return GFP_DMA32, which will
> fail if you allocate something above 1G (which is legit for
> ZONE_DMA32).
And then we will try GFP_DMA further down in the function:
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) &&
dev->coherent_dma_mask < DMA_BIT_MASK(32) &&
!(gfp & GFP_DMA)) {
gfp = (gfp & ~GFP_DMA32) | GFP_DMA;
goto again;
}
This is and old optimization from x86, because chances are high that
GFP_DMA32 will give you suitable memory for the infamous 31-bit
dma mask devices (at least at boot time) and thus we don't have
to deplete the tiny ZONE_DMA pool.
