[PATCH 0/4] Add global CMA areas for few TI SoCs

[Brandon Brnich]

Hi Jayesh

On 4/24/2025 3:44 AM, Jayesh Choudhary wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Following AM62* platforms[0], this patches add global CMA reserve area for:
> - J721S2-EVM (1056 MiB)
> - J784S4-EVM (1920 MiB)
> - AM68-SK (1008 MiB)
> - AM69-SK (1904 MiB)
> 
> These SoCs does not have MMU and hence they require contiguous memory
> pool to support various multimedia usecase.

This series will break multimedia support in our tree if accepted. I 
gave a similar response to Devarsh when trying to get CMA carveout 
accepted for AM62p[0]. Essentially, Wave5 still does not have support 
for 48 bit addressing in upstream, so memory allocation still needs to 
happen in 32-bit range. Can we force the memory carveout in this region 
using the alloc-ranges? Devarsh did this with AM62A[1].

Best,
Brandon

[0]: 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240614170409.zu4vaatdac4o6w2o@udba0500997/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240613150902.2173582-3-devarsht@ti.com/

> 
> The calculation was done considering H264 codec requirements, dual-display
> supported in each platforms and multicamera use-cases.
> Additional buffer was kept for other peripheral s and to account for
> fragmentation.
> The breakdown is mentioned in each commit message.
> 
> [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240613150902.2173582-1-devarsht@ti.com/
> 
> Jayesh Choudhary (4):
>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-j721s2-som-p0: Reserve 1056MiB of global CMA
>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-j784s4-j742s2-evm-common: Reserve 1920MiB of global
>      CMA
>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am68-sk-som: Reserve 1008MiB of global CMA
>    arm64: dts: ti: k3-am69-sk: Reserve 1904MiB of global CMA
> 
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am68-sk-som.dtsi              | 8 ++++++++
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am69-sk.dts                   | 8 ++++++++
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j721s2-som-p0.dtsi            | 8 ++++++++
>   arch/arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-j784s4-j742s2-evm-common.dtsi | 8 ++++++++
>   4 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
>