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Jiri Bohac e1280f3071 kdump: wait for DMA to finish when using CMA
When re-using the CMA area for kdump there is a risk of pending DMA into
pinned user pages in the CMA area.

Pages residing in CMA areas can usually not get long-term pinned and are
instead migrated away from the CMA area, so long-term pinning is typically
not a concern.  (BUGs in the kernel might still lead to long-term pinning
of such pages if everything goes wrong.)

Pages pinned without FOLL_LONGTERM remain in the CMA and may possibly be
the source or destination of a pending DMA transfer.

Although there is no clear specification how long a page may be pinned
without FOLL_LONGTERM, pinning without the flag shows an intent of the
caller to only use the memory for short-lived DMA transfers, not a
transfer initiated by a device asynchronously at a random time in the
future.

Add a delay of CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC seconds before starting the kdump
kernel, giving such short-lived DMA transfers time to finish before the
CMA memory is re-used by the kdump kernel.

Set CMA_DMA_TIMEOUT_SEC to 10 seconds - chosen arbitrarily as both a huge
margin for a DMA transfer, yet not increasing the kdump time too
significantly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aEqpgDIBndZ5LXSo@dwarf.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Cc: Pingfan Liu <piliu@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Liu <ltao@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
arch Add a new optional ",cma" suffix to the crashkernel= command line option 2025-07-19 19:08:22 -07:00
block block-6.16-20250626 2025-06-27 09:02:33 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto lib/raid6: replace custom zero page with ZERO_PAGE 2025-07-09 22:57:54 -07:00
Documentation kdump, documentation: describe craskernel CMA reservation 2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
drivers relayfs: abolish prev_padding 2025-07-09 22:57:51 -07:00
fs ocfs2: update d_splice_alias() return code checking 2025-07-09 22:57:57 -07:00
include kdump: implement reserve_crashkernel_cma 2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
init futex: Temporary disable FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 2025-07-01 15:02:05 +02:00
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ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel kdump: wait for DMA to finish when using CMA 2025-07-19 19:08:23 -07:00
lib lib: test_objagg: split test_hints_case() into two functions 2025-07-09 22:57:55 -07:00
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Makefile Linux 6.16-rc5 2025-07-06 14:10:26 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

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 reStructuredText 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.