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

["Michał Nazarewicz" <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:24:58 +0200, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 04:31:35PM +0200, Micha?? Nazarewicz wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:52:30 +0200, Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:
>
>> > If this does need to be configured per system would having platform data
>> > of some kind in the kernel not be a sensible a place to do it,
>
>> The current version (and the next version I'm working on) of the code
>> has cma_defaults() call.  It is intended to be called from platform
>> initialisation code to provide defaults.
>
> So the command line is just a way of overriding that?  That makes things
> a lot nicer - normally the device would use the defaults and the command
> line would be used in development.

Correct.

>> > or even
>> > having a way of configuring this at runtime (after all, the set of
>> > currently active users may vary depending on the current configuration
>> > and keeping everything allocated all the time may be wasteful)?
>
>> I am currently working on making the whole thing more dynamic.  I imagine
>> the list of regions would stay pretty much the same after kernel has
>> started (that's because one cannot reliably allocate new big contiguous
>> memory regions) but it will be possible to change the set of rules, etc.
>
> Yes, I think it will be much easier to be able to grab the regions at
> startup but hopefully the allocation within those regions can be made
> much more dynamic.  This would render most of the configuration syntax
> unneeded.

Not sure what you mean by the last sentence.  Maybe we have different
things in mind?

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