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    ALSA: memalloc: Add fallback SG-buffer allocations for x86 · 925ca893
    Takashi Iwai authored
    The recent change for memory allocator replaced the SG-buffer handling
    helper for x86 with the standard non-contiguous page handler.  This
    works for most cases, but there is a corner case I obviously
    overlooked, namely, the fallback of non-contiguous handler without
    IOMMU.  When the system runs without IOMMU, the core handler tries to
    use the continuous pages with a single SGL entry.  It works nicely for
    most cases, but when the system memory gets fragmented, the large
    allocation may fail frequently.
    
    Ideally the non-contig handler could deal with the proper SG pages,
    it's cumbersome to extend for now.  As a workaround, here we add new
    types for (minimalistic) SG allocations, instead, so that the
    allocator falls back to those types automatically when the allocation
    with the standard API failed.
    
    BTW, one better (but pretty minor) improvement from the previous
    SG-buffer code is that this provides the proper mmap support without
    the PCM's page fault handling.
    
    Fixes: 2c95b92e ("ALSA: memalloc: Unify x86 SG-buffer handling (take#3)")
    BugLink: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2272
    BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198248
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413054808.7547-1-tiwai@suse.deSigned-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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