Messages in this thread | | | From | Barry Song <> | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:53:35 +0800 | Subject | Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCHv23 13/16] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator |
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2012/2/23 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>: > The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA > mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks. > > CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with MIGRATE_CMA migrate type > and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate only movable > pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for > page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On > dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA > area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This > allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time > assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system. > > This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org> > Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> > Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> > Tested-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
if there is a /proc/cmainfo like /proc/slabinfo, it might be helpful to people as we can see the usage of CMA clearly.
Thanks barry
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