[6.2][regression] after commit ffcb754584603adf7039d7972564fbf6febdc542 all sound devices disappeared (due BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:3592!)

[Robin Murphy]

On 2022-12-16 06:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Ok, it seems like the sound noncontig alloc code that I already
> commented on as potentially bogus GFP_GOMP mapping trips this.  I think
> for now the right thing would be to revert the hunk in dma-iommu.c
> (see patch below).  The other thing to try would be to remove both
> uses GFP_COMP in sound/core/memalloc.c, which should have the same
> effect.

Or we explicitly strip the flag in dma_alloc_noncontiguous() (and maybe 
dma_alloc_pages() as well) for consistency with dma_alloc_attrs(). That 
seems like it might be the most robust option.

Robin.

> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> index 9297b741f5e80e..f798c44e090337 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/dma-iommu.c
> @@ -744,9 +744,6 @@ static struct page **__iommu_dma_alloc_pages(struct device *dev,
>   	/* IOMMU can map any pages, so himem can also be used here */
>   	gfp |= __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
>   
> -	/* It makes no sense to muck about with huge pages */
> -	gfp &= ~__GFP_COMP;
> -
>   	while (count) {
>   		struct page *page = NULL;
>   		unsigned int order_size;
>