[PATCH 8/9] ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Aug 16 09:14:52 EDT 2011


On Tuesday 16 August 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> On Friday, August 12, 2011 5:01 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > How about something like
> > 
> >       if (arch_is_coherent() || nommu())
> >               ret = alloc_simple_buffer();
> >       else if (arch_is_v4_v5())
> >               ret = alloc_remap();
> >       else if (gfp & GFP_ATOMIC)
> >               ret = alloc_from_pool();
> >       else
> >               ret = alloc_from_contiguous();
> > 
> > This also allows a natural conversion to dma_map_ops when we get there.
> 
> Ok. Is it ok to enable CMA permanently for ARMv6+? If CMA is left conditional
> the dma pool code will be much more complicated, because it will need to support
> both CMA and non-CMA cases.

I think that is ok, yes.

	Arnd



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