| From: |
| David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> |
| To: |
| Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
| Subject: |
| [patch] x86: allow ZONE_DMA to be configurable |
| Date: |
| Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:15:04 -0700 (PDT) |
| Message-ID: |
| <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010131713160.24646@chino.kir.corp.google.com> |
| Cc: |
| Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org |
| Archive‑link: | |
Article |
ZONE_DMA is unnecessary for a large number of machines that do not
require addressing in the lower 16MB of memory because they do not use
ISA devices with 16-bit address registers (plus one page byte register).
This patch allows users to disable ZONE_DMA for x86 if they know they
will not be using such devices with their kernel.
This prevents the VM from unnecessarily reserving a ratio of memory
(defaulting to 1/256th of system capacity) with lowmem_reserve_ratio
for such allocations when it will never be used.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 7 ++++++-
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 ++
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -99,7 +99,12 @@ config MMU
def_bool y
config ZONE_DMA
- def_bool y
+ bool "DMA memory allocation support"
+ default y
+ help
+ DMA memory allocation support allows old ISA devices with 16-bit
+ address registers to allocate memory within the first 16MB of
+ address space. Disable if no such devices will be used.
config SBUS
bool
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -740,8 +740,10 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(void)
{
unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];
memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] =
virt_to_phys((char *)MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+#endif
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_low_pfn;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_HIGHMEM] = highend_pfn;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -598,7 +598,9 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];
memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA] = MAX_DMA_PFN;
+#endif
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = MAX_DMA32_PFN;
max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max_pfn;
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