Subject: [ARM]Fixmap mapping region is not enough for system of 14+ CPUs.

From: [email-masked] (Liu hua)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:34:49 +0800

On 2014/3/13 1:08, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Liu hua wrote:
> 
>> Hi Russell, Will or Nicolas,
>>
>> (In this mail, we only discuss ARM 32-bit linux.)
>>
>> As we know, the region (0xfff00000-0xfffdffff) is reserved as fixmap
>> mapping region.
>>
>> The function "kmap_atomic" maps highmem pages to this region referring
>> to CPUID and per-cpu variable "__kmap_atomic_idx" via
>>
>>   idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR * smp_processor_id();
>>   vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);
>>
>> Size of region used by one cpu is 0x10000 (KM_TYPE_NR << PAGE_SHIFT).
>> And the total size of the fixmap mapping region is 0xe0000.
>> (only support 14 CPUs).
>>
>> So in a system of more than 14 CPUs, this region is not large enough.
>> should we change the memory layout on ARM Linux to support 14+ cpu system ?
>> Or can we do anything else to support that ?
> 
> How many CPUs do you have?
> 
> What about the following patch?  If this doesn't work for you then more 
> intrusive changes will be needed.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> index 68ea615c2a..254f2df08d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
> @@ -14,7 +14,17 @@
>   */
>  
>  #define FIXADDR_START		0xfff00000UL
> +
> +#if !defined(CONFIG_HAVE_TCM) && !defined(CONFIG_CPU_XSCALE)
> +/*
> + * If no TCM nor on on a XScale then enlarge the fixmap area to
> + * accommodate up to 30 CPUs.
> + */
> +#define FIXADDR_END		0xffff0000UL
> +#else
>  #define FIXADDR_END		0xfffe0000UL
One cpu need 0x10000-size region; So this patch can only support
uo to 15 CPUs
> +#endif
> +
>  #define FIXADDR_TOP		(FIXADDR_END - PAGE_SIZE)
>  
>  enum fixed_addresses {
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 

We have 16 CPUs in our system. And your patch cannot work if
the CPU number exceeds 15.

In addition, we can configure NR_CPUS up to 32. So should we
solve this problem completely?

There is an 1M-size hole between DMA mapping region and fixmap
mapping region(0xffe00000-0xfff00000).if this region are belonged
to fixmap mapping region, it can only support 30 CPUs.

Since we have alloced a second level page table to coverring
0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff(2M). And 0xffff0000 upwards used as
vector pages. So if the left region is all used as fixmap mapping
region(size : 0x1f0000). Up to 31 CPUs is supported.

The following patch can solve our problem(up to 30 CPUs), But it
reduce the DMA region. What do you think about it ?
Is is necessory to solve this problem completely(up to 32 CPUs)
?

Liu Hua

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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
index 68ea615..8379891 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/fixmap.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * 0xfffe0000 and 0xfffeffff.
  */

-#define FIXADDR_START              0xfff00000UL
+#define FIXADDR_START                0xffe00000UL
 #define FIXADDR_END            0xfffe0000UL
 #define FIXADDR_TOP            (FIXADDR_END - PAGE_SIZE)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
index 4afb376..0c40674 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
  */
 #define IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER      24

-#define CONSISTENT_END             (0xffe00000UL)
+#define CONSISTENT_END               (0xffd00000UL)

 #else /* CONFIG_MMU */