[PATCH 1/4] of/fdt: Update zone_dma_bits when running in bcm2711

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Oct 12 02:47:15 EDT 2020


On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 06:10:52PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> kdump wants DMA-able memory and,

DMAable by whom?  The only way to guranteed DMAable memory is to use
the DMA memory allocator(s) and pass a specific device to them.  Everyting
else is just fundamentally broken.  Note that even when device is not
DMAable we can still use swiotlb to access it.



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