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[6/7] ALSA: memalloc: don't pass bogus GFP_ flags to dma_alloc_*

Message ID 20221113163535.884299-7-hch@lst.de (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Series [1/7] media: videobuf-dma-contig: use dma_mmap_coherent | expand

Commit Message

Christoph Hellwig Nov. 13, 2022, 4:35 p.m. UTC
dma_alloc_coherent/dma_alloc_wc is an opaque allocator that only uses
the GFP_ flags for allocation context control.  Don't pass __GFP_COMP
which makes no sense for an allocation that can't in any way be
converted to a page pointer.

Note that for dma_alloc_noncoherent and dma_alloc_noncontigous in
combination with the DMA mmap helpers __GFP_COMP looks sketchy as well,
so I would suggest to drop that as well after a careful audit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 sound/core/memalloc.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Takashi Iwai Nov. 14, 2022, 9:04 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:35:34 +0100,
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> dma_alloc_coherent/dma_alloc_wc is an opaque allocator that only uses
> the GFP_ flags for allocation context control.  Don't pass __GFP_COMP
> which makes no sense for an allocation that can't in any way be
> converted to a page pointer.

The addition of __GFP_COMP there was really old, it was Hugh's commit
f3d48f0373c1 at 2005:
    [PATCH] unpaged: fix sound Bad page states

It mentions something about sparc32/64.  I hope this isn't relevant
any longer (honestly I have no idea about that).

> Note that for dma_alloc_noncoherent and dma_alloc_noncontigous in
> combination with the DMA mmap helpers __GFP_COMP looks sketchy as well,
> so I would suggest to drop that as well after a careful audit.

Yeah, that's a cargo-cult copy&paste from the old idiom.
Should be killed altogether.


Thanks!

Takashi
Christoph Hellwig Nov. 21, 2022, 8:37 a.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> It mentions something about sparc32/64.  I hope this isn't relevant
> any longer (honestly I have no idea about that).

It shouldn't.  sparc is using fairly generic code now.
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diff --git a/sound/core/memalloc.c b/sound/core/memalloc.c
index 03cffe7713667..fe03cf796e8bb 100644
--- a/sound/core/memalloc.c
+++ b/sound/core/memalloc.c
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ 
 
 #define DEFAULT_GFP \
 	(GFP_KERNEL | \
-	 __GFP_COMP |    /* compound page lets parts be mapped */ \
 	 __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | /* don't trigger OOM-killer */ \
 	 __GFP_NOWARN)   /* no stack trace print - this call is non-critical */
 
@@ -542,7 +541,7 @@  static void *snd_dma_noncontig_alloc(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
 	void *p;
 
 	sgt = dma_alloc_noncontiguous(dmab->dev.dev, size, dmab->dev.dir,
-				      DEFAULT_GFP, 0);
+				      DEFAULT_GFP | __GFP_COMP, 0);
 	if (!sgt) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_SND_DMA_SGBUF
 		if (dmab->dev.type == SNDRV_DMA_TYPE_DEV_WC_SG)
@@ -810,7 +809,7 @@  static void *snd_dma_noncoherent_alloc(struct snd_dma_buffer *dmab, size_t size)
 	void *p;
 
 	p = dma_alloc_noncoherent(dmab->dev.dev, size, &dmab->addr,
-				  dmab->dev.dir, DEFAULT_GFP);
+				  dmab->dev.dir, DEFAULT_GFP | __GFP_COMP);
 	if (p)
 		dmab->dev.need_sync = dma_need_sync(dmab->dev.dev, dmab->addr);
 	return p;