Dear Joonsoo,
I tried your changes which are present at the below link.
But unfortunately for me it did not help much.
After running various apps that uses ION nonmovable memory, it fails to allocate memory after some time. When I see the pagetypeinfo shows lots of CMA pages available and non-movable were very less and thus nonmovable allocation were failing.
However I noticed the failure was little delayed.
Also I noticed that the CMA utilized and the CMA free is not matching with total CMA size.
In my system RAM is 256MB and CMA configured is 56MB.
And free memory was hanging around 30-40MB during failure.
Am I missing something?
My kernel version is 3.10 and I applied the changes manually.
If there are other sets of patches that needs to be applied, please let me know.
Note, I did not apply the ALLOC_CMA removal patches.
Now I am experimenting more and will share if I have any findings.
Thank you!
Pintu
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Date: 29/07/2014 5:06 PM (GMT+09:00)
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Subject: RE: [linux-3.10.17] Could not allocate memory from free CMA areas
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Subject: RE: [linux-3.10.17] Could not allocate memory from free CMA areas
Dear joonsoo kim,
> I have your patches for: Aggressively allocate memory from cma ....
> We are facing almost similar problem here.
> If any of your patches still working for you please let us know here.
> I would like to try those approach.
Hello,
I stopped to implement it, because there are other bugs on CMA related codes.
Although aggressively allocate... doesn't have bugs itself, it enlarges
existing freepage counting bugs significantly so I'm first trying to fix
those bugs. See the below link.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/4/79
I will restart to implement aggressively... after fixing these bugs.
If you have interest on next version of aggressively allocate..., see the
following link.
https://github.com/JoonsooKim/linux/tree/cma-fix-up-v3.0-next-20140625
Thanks.