[PATCH v3 8/8] mm: Update DMA zones description

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Oct 15 01:40:26 EDT 2020


On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:12:10PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> The default behavior for arm64 changed, so reflect that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne at suse.de>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index fb3bf696c05e..4ee2306351b9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -363,8 +363,9 @@ enum zone_type {
>  	 *  - arm only uses ZONE_DMA, the size, up to 4G, may vary depending on
>  	 *    the specific device.
>  	 *
> -	 *  - arm64 has a fixed 1G ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 for the rest of the
> -	 *    lower 4G.
> +	 *  - arm64 uses a single 4GB ZONE_DMA, except on the Raspberry Pi 4,
> +	 *    in which ZONE_DMA covers the first GB and ZONE_DMA32 the rest of
> +	 *    the lower 4GB.

Honestly I think this comment just needs to go away.  We can't really list
every setup in a comment in common code.



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