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When swiotlb_find_slots() cannot find suitable slots, schedule the allocation of a new memory pool. It is not possible to allocate the pool immediately, because this code may run in interrupt context, which is not suitable for large memory allocations. This means that the memory pool will be available too late for the currently requested mapping, but the stress on the software IO TLB allocator is likely to continue, and subsequent allocations will benefit from the additional pool eventually. Keep all memory pools for an allocator in an RCU list to avoid locking on the read side. For modifications, add a new spinlock to struct io_tlb_mem. The spinlock also protects updates to the total number of slabs (nslabs in struct io_tlb_mem), but not reads of the value. Readers may therefore encounter a stale value, but this is not an issue: - swiotlb_tbl_map_single() and is_swiotlb_active() only check for non-zero value. This is ensured by the existence of the default memory pool, allocated at boot. - The exact value is used only for non-critical purposes (debugfs, kernel messages). Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <petr.tesarik.ext@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.