@@ -759,14 +759,6 @@ static void *__dma_alloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *handle,
if (mask < 0xffffffffULL)
gfp |= GFP_DMA;
- /*
- * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
- * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
- * handle them. The real problem is that this flag probably
- * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
- * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
- */
- gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
args.gfp = gfp;
*handle = DMA_MAPPING_ERROR;
@@ -1527,15 +1519,6 @@ static void *__arm_iommu_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size,
return __iommu_alloc_simple(dev, size, gfp, handle,
coherent_flag, attrs);
- /*
- * Following is a work-around (a.k.a. hack) to prevent pages
- * with __GFP_COMP being passed to split_page() which cannot
- * handle them. The real problem is that this flag probably
- * should be 0 on ARM as it is not supported on this
- * platform; see CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.
- */
- gfp &= ~(__GFP_COMP);
-
pages = __iommu_alloc_buffer(dev, size, gfp, attrs, coherent_flag);
if (!pages)
return NULL;
@@ -252,6 +252,15 @@ void *dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle,
/* let the implementation decide on the zone to allocate from: */
flag &= ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
+ /*
+ * __GFP_COMP interacts badly with splitting up a larger order
+ * allocation. But as our allocations might not even come from the
+ * page allocator, the callers can't rely on the fact that they
+ * even get pages, never mind which kind.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(flag & __GFP_COMP))
+ flag &= ~__GFP_COMP;
+
if (dma_is_direct(ops))
cpu_addr = dma_direct_alloc(dev, size, dma_handle, flag, attrs);
else if (ops->alloc)
Lift the code to clear __GFP_COMP from arm into the common DMA allocator path. For one this fixes the various other patches that call alloc_pages_exact or split_page in case a bogus driver passes the argument, and it also prepares for doing exact allocation in the generic dma-direct allocator. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c | 17 ----------------- kernel/dma/mapping.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)