From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: 'Russell King - ARM Linux' <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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'Daniel Walker' <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
'Jonathan Corbet' <corbet@lwn.net>, 'Mel Gorman' <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
'Chunsang Jeong' <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>,
'Michal Nazarewicz' <mina86@mina86.com>,
'Jesse Barker' <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
'Kyungmin Park' <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
'Ankita Garg' <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
'Andrew Morton' <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
'KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki' <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:09:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107061609.29996.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006301cc3be4$daab1850$900148f0$%szyprowski@samsung.com>
On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> The only problem that might need to be resolved is GFP_ATOMIC allocation
> (updating page properties probably requires some locking), but it can be
> served from a special area which is created on boot without low-memory
> mapping at all. None sane driver will call dma_alloc_coherent(GFP_ATOMIC)
> for large buffers anyway.
Would it be easier to start with a version that only allocated from memory
without a low-memory mapping at first?
This would be similar to the approach that Russell's fix for the regular
dma_alloc_coherent has taken, except that you need to also allow the memory
to be used as highmem user pages.
Maybe you can simply adapt the default location of the contiguous memory
are like this:
- make CONFIG_CMA depend on CONFIG_HIGHMEM on ARM, at compile time
- if ZONE_HIGHMEM exist during boot, put the CMA area in there
- otherwise, put the CMA area at the top end of lowmem, and change
the zone sizes so ZONE_HIGHMEM stretches over all of the CMA memory.
Arnd
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 7:41 [PATCHv11 0/8] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:27 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 10:24 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:02 ` [PATCH 6/8 RESEND] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 11:33 ` [PATCH 6/8] " Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 12:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-05 13:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-08 17:25 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-12 13:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-03 17:43 ` James Bottomley
2011-09-26 12:06 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-09-26 13:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 13:58 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:09 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-06 14:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 14:37 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-09 14:57 ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-11 13:47 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-11 19:01 ` Janusz Krzysztofik
2011-07-12 5:34 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 14:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 15:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 16:09 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-07-06 16:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 19:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2011-07-06 17:02 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 16:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-06 19:10 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 20:23 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-07 5:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-06 14:56 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-06 15:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 15:47 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-14 12:29 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: integrate CMA with dma-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 7:41 ` [PATCH 8/8] ARM: S5PV210: example of CMA private area for FIMC device on Goni board Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-05 11:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:07 ` [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-05 12:28 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-07 7:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-11 13:24 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20 8:57 [PATCHv12 " Marek Szyprowski
2011-07-20 8:57 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add " Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 [PATCHv15 0/8] " Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-19 14:27 ` [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add " Marek Szyprowski
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