Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 12/15] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

Hi Marek,

With v19, I can't seem to allocate big regions anymore (e.g. 101MiB). In particular, this seems to fail:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski@samsung.com wrote:

+static int cma_activate_area(unsigned long base_pfn, unsigned long count) +{

• unsigned long pfn = base_pfn;
• unsigned i = count >> pageblock_order;
• struct zone *zone;
• WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn));
• zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn));
• do {
• unsigned j;
• base_pfn = pfn;
• for (j = pageblock_nr_pages; j; --j, pfn++) {
• WARN_ON_ONCE(!pfn_valid(pfn));
• if (page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) != zone)
• return -EINVAL;

The above WARN_ON_ONCE is triggered, and then the conditional is asserted (page_zone() retuns a "Movable" zone, whereas zone is "Normal") and the function fails.

This happens to me on OMAP4 with your 3.3-rc1-cma-v19 branch (and a bunch of remoteproc/rpmsg patches).

Do big allocations work for you ?

Thanks, Ohad.