Revert "mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock"
This reverts commit a4efc174 which introduced a regression issue that when there're multiple processes allocating dma memory in parallel by calling dma_alloc_coherent(), it may fail sometimes as follows: Error log: cma: cma_alloc: linux,cma: alloc failed, req-size: 148 pages, ret: -16 cma: number of available pages: 3@125+20@172+12@236+4@380+32@736+17@2287+23@2473+20@36076+99@40477+108@40852+44@41108+20@41196+108@41364+108@41620+ 108@42900+108@43156+483@44061+1763@45341+1440@47712+20@49324+20@49388+5076@49452+2304@55040+35@58141+20@58220+20@58284+ 7188@58348+84@66220+7276@66452+227@74525+6371@75549=> 33161 free of 81920 total pages When issue happened, we saw there were still 33161 pages (129M) free CMA memory and a lot available free slots for 148 pages in CMA bitmap that we want to allocate. When dumping memory info, we found that there was also ~342M normal memory, but only 1352K CMA memory left in buddy system while a lot of pageblocks were...
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