[PATCHv2 2/4] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added

Michał Nazarewicz m.nazarewicz at samsung.com
Wed Jul 28 04:53:17 EDT 2010


>> +static inline dma_addr_t __must_check
>> +cma_alloc(const struct device *dev, const char *kind,
>> +	  size_t size, dma_addr_t alignment)
>> +{
>> +	return dev ? -EINVAL : __cma_alloc(dev, kind, size, alignment);

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:08:41 +0200, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> So I can't use this to allocate memory for anything but a NULL device?

>> +static inline int
>> +cma_info(struct cma_info *info, const struct device *dev, const char *kind)
>> +{
>> +	return dev ? -EINVAL : __cma_info(info, dev, kind);

> This won't return information for anything but a NULL device?

Obviously a bug.  Thanks for spotting that.

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