[Linux-Xtensa] dma_pool_alloc fails

[ananth.sundapalayam at wipro.com]

Hi,

I use dma_pool_create to a create a pool & subsequently use
dma_pool_alloc to allocate 

mem from this pool.

dma_pool_alloc seems to be failing.

 

I get the following error:

 

swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x21

 

Stack: 00000000 d028e04c d0205c20 d72ff2e0 d028e09c d78131e0 d028c92c
00000001

       d028c92c 00000001 00000000 00000001 d028e050 d7817a30 d028e058
d028e01c

       00000000 00000000 d7809860 00000009 9014b50c d7817a70 d028e058
d028e01c

Call Trace:

 [<d014b3a6>] really_probe+0xca/0x15c

 [<d014b50c>] driver_probe_device+0x68/0x74

 [<d014b60a>] __driver_attach+0x6a/0x9c

 [<d014a3e7>] bus_for_each_dev+0x63/0x8c

 [<d014b652>] driver_attach+0x16/0x1c

 [<d014aaa7>] bus_add_driver+0xab/0x15c

 [<d014bb55>] driver_register+0x89/0xbc

 [<d014d13b>] platform_driver_register+0x67/0x6c

 [<d014d169>] platform_driver_probe+0x15/0x58

 [<d02b6b45>] anurag_dmac_init+0x3d/0x50

 [<d0003672>] do_one_initcall+0x56/0x188

 [<d02ab9da>] do_initcalls+0x1a/0x30

 [<d02aba0e>] do_basic_setup+0x1e/0x20

 [<d02aba9b>] kernel_init+0x5f/0x9c

 [<d0005145>] kernel_thread+0x1d/0x28

 [<d0202781>] rest_init+0x11/0x58

 

Mem-Info:

Normal per-cpu:

CPU    0: hi:   42, btch:   7 usd:  45

Active_anon:0 active_file:0 inactive_anon:0

 inactive_file:1554 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0

 free:29220 slab:271 mapped:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0

Normal free:116880kB min:1440kB low:1800kB high:2160kB active_anon:0kB
inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:6216kB unevictable:0kB
present:129920kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no

lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0

Normal: 4*4kB 2*8kB 1*16kB 3*32kB 4*64kB 2*128kB 2*256kB 4*512kB
3*1024kB 2*2048kB 26*4096kB = 116880kB

1561 total pagecache pages

0 pages in swap cache

Swap cache stats: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0

Free swap  = 0kB

Total swap = 0kB

32768 pages RAM

1633 pages reserved

7 pages shared

1838 pages non-shared

 

It says Free Swap/Total Swap are 0 KB.

Is this the problem?

 

Looking into dma_pool_alloc I found that it calls dma_alloc_coherent
which calls __get_free_pages.

And, using prints I found alloc_pages, called by __get_free_pages, is
returning NULL.

 

Any pointers on this would be helpful.

 

Thanks,
Ananth

 


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