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Alexey Kardashevskiy
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The IOMMU table uses the it_map bitmap to keep track of allocated DMA pages. This has always been a contiguous array allocated at either the boot time or when a passed through device is returned to the host OS. The it_map memory is allocated by alloc_pages() which allocates contiguous physical memory. Such allocation method occasionally creates a problem when there is no big chunk of memory available (no free memory or too fragmented). On powernv/ioda2 the default DMA window requires 16MB for it_map. This replaces alloc_pages_node() with vzalloc_node() which allocates contiguous block but in virtual memory. This should reduce changes of failure but should not cause other behavioral changes as it_map is only used by the kernel's DMA hooks/api when MMU is on. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216033307.69863-2-aik@ozlabs.ru
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.