[PATCH] ARM: i.mx35 increase dma consistent region size

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:01:14PM +0300, Alex Gershgorin wrote:
> The default size of the consistent DMA region is 2MB
> without this patch, attempt to allocate more than 2MB
> is causing allocation failure
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Gershgorin <alexg at meprolight.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> index 7412738..a2c0c7d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-imx/mm-imx3.c
> @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static struct map_desc mx35_io_desc[] __initdata = {
>  void __init mx35_map_io(void)
>  {
>  	iotable_init(mx35_io_desc, ARRAY_SIZE(mx35_io_desc));
> +	init_consistent_dma_size(SZ_8M);

I don't know what to think about this. You probably have a board with
camera support and thus need bigger buffers, right? Nevertheless this
patch affects all i.MX35 users, even the ones without camera support.

Another possibility would be to make this board specific.

Sascha

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