[PATCH 3/3] ARM: Kirkwood: increase atomic coherent pool size

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Mon Aug 20 06:47:28 EDT 2012


The default 256 KiB coherent pool may be too small for some of the Kirkwood
devices, so increase it to make sure that devices will be able to allocate
their buffers with GFP_ATOMIC flag.

Suggested-by: Josh Coombs <josh.coombs at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
---
 arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
index c4b64ad..d748f50 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/common.c
@@ -517,6 +517,13 @@ void __init kirkwood_wdt_init(void)
 void __init kirkwood_init_early(void)
 {
 	orion_time_set_base(TIMER_VIRT_BASE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Some Kirkwood devices allocate their coherent buffers from atomic
+	 * context. Increase size of atomic coherent pool to make sure such
+	 * the allocations won't fail.
+	 */
+	init_dma_coherent_pool_size(SZ_1M);
 }
 
 int kirkwood_tclk;
-- 
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