Revision 2be23c475af8ae4e25f8bab08d815b17593bd547 authored by Russell King on 08 September 2010, 15:27:56 UTC, committed by Russell King on 08 September 2010, 15:27:56 UTC
Dave Hylands reports: | We've observed a problem with dma_alloc_writecombine when the system | is under heavy load (heavy bus traffic). We've managed to reduce the | problem to the following snippet, which is run from a kthread in a | continuous loop: | | void *virtAddr; | dma_addr_t physAddr; | unsigned int numBytes = 256; | | for (;;) { | virtAddr = dma_alloc_writecombine(NULL, | numBytes, &physAddr, GFP_KERNEL); | if (virtAddr == NULL) { | printk(KERN_ERR "Running out of memory\n"); | break; | } | | /* access DMA memory allocated */ | tmp = virtAddr; | *tmp = 0x77; | | /* free DMA memory */ | dma_free_writecombine(NULL, | numBytes, virtAddr, physAddr); | | ...sleep here... | } | | By itself, the code will run forever with no issues. However, as we | increase our bus traffic (typically using DMA) then the *tmp = 0x77 | line will eventually cause a page fault. If we add a small delay (a | few microseconds) before the *tmp = 0x77, then we don't see a page | fault, even under heavy load. A dsb() is required after modifying the PTE entries to ensure that they will always be visible. Add this dsb(). Reported-by: Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com> Tested-by: Dave Hylands <dhylands@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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atm | ||
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base | ||
block | ||
bluetooth | ||
cdrom | ||
char | ||
clocksource | ||
connector | ||
cpufreq | ||
cpuidle | ||
crypto | ||
dca | ||
dio | ||
dma | ||
edac | ||
eisa | ||
firewire | ||
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gpio | ||
gpu | ||
hid | ||
hwmon | ||
i2c | ||
ide | ||
idle | ||
ieee1394 | ||
ieee802154 | ||
infiniband | ||
input | ||
isdn | ||
leds | ||
lguest | ||
macintosh | ||
mca | ||
md | ||
media | ||
memstick | ||
message | ||
mfd | ||
misc | ||
mmc | ||
mtd | ||
net | ||
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of | ||
oprofile | ||
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parport | ||
pci | ||
pcmcia | ||
platform | ||
pnp | ||
power | ||
pps | ||
ps3 | ||
rapidio | ||
regulator | ||
rtc | ||
s390 | ||
sbus | ||
scsi | ||
serial | ||
sfi | ||
sh | ||
sn | ||
spi | ||
ssb | ||
staging | ||
tc | ||
telephony | ||
thermal | ||
uio | ||
usb | ||
uwb | ||
vhost | ||
video | ||
virtio | ||
vlynq | ||
w1 | ||
watchdog | ||
xen | ||
zorro | ||
Kconfig | -rw-r--r-- | 1.8 KB |
Makefile | -rw-r--r-- | 3.3 KB |
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