Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator | Date | Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:59:45 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > Another issue is that when a platform has restricted DMA regions, > > they typically don't fall into the highmem zone. As the dmabounce > > code allocates from the DMA coherent allocator to provide it with > > guaranteed DMA-able memory, that would be rather inconvenient. > > Do we encounter this in practice i.e. do those platforms requiring large > contiguous allocations motivating this work have such DMA restrictions?
You can probably find one or two of those, but we don't have to optimize for that case. I would at least expect the maximum size of the allocation to be smaller than the DMA limit for these, and consequently mandate that they define a sufficiently large CONSISTENT_DMA_SIZE for the crazy devices, or possibly add a hack to unmap some low memory and call dma_declare_coherent_memory() for the device.
Arnd
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