Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:18:36 +0200 | From | Marek Szyprowski <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 7/7] ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem |
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Hello,
On Thursday, October 06, 2011 3:55 PM Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This patch adds support for CMA to dma-mapping subsystem for ARM > architecture. By default a global CMA area is used, but specific devices > are allowed to have their private memory areas if required (they can be > created with dma_declare_contiguous() function during board > initialization). > > Contiguous memory areas reserved for DMA are remapped with 2-level page > tables on boot. Once a buffer is requested, a low memory kernel mapping > is updated to to match requested memory access type. > > GFP_ATOMIC allocations are performed from special pool which is created > early during boot. This way remapping page attributes is not needed on > allocation time. > > CMA has been enabled unconditionally for ARMv6+ systems. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Please ignore this patch. The patch named as "[PATCH 8/9] ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem" in this thread is the correct one.
Best regards -- Marek Szyprowski Samsung Poland R&D Center
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