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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/8 RESEND] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
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On Tuesday 05 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> 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 CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE and
> gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate 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>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, but I noticed two
one-character mistakes:

> +if CMA
> +
> +config CMA_DEBUG
> + bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPEMENT)"

s/DEVELOPEMENT/DEVELOPMENT/

> diff --git a/drivers/base/Makefile b/drivers/base/Makefile
> index 4c5701c..be6aab4 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/Makefile
> +++ b/drivers/base/Makefile
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ obj-y := core.o sys.o bus.o dd.o syscore.o \
> cpu.o firmware.o init.o map.o devres.o \
> attribute_container.o transport_class.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS) += devtmpfs.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_CMA) += dma-contiguous.o
> obj-y += power/
> obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA) += dma-mapping.o

Please add another tab to indent the line in the same way as the others.

Arnd


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