Messages in this thread | | | From | Damian Hobson-Garcia <> | Subject | [v2 PATCH 0/2] Add UIO device supporting dynamic memory allocation | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:09:10 +0900 |
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Hello all,
I've been using this UIO driver for allocation/deallocation of memory regions through an IOMMU via the dma-mapping API, but it seems that it would be more generally useful for userspace drivers to access CMA memory regions. I've kept all dynamic memory handling in the specific device driver.
The number and size of the dynamically allocatable regions is defined statically in the device platform data, and the actually memory is allocated and deallocated when the device is opened/closed.
Details of the dynamically allocated regions are available from sysfs in exactly the same was as for static regions. The total number of dynamic and static regions combined cannot exceed MAX_UIO_MAPS.
Changes from v1/RFC
* Add driver documentation to UIO HOWTO * Remove sh7372 specific example code
Damian Hobson-Garcia (2): Add new uio device for dynamic memory allocation Add uio_dmem_genirq description to UIO documentation
Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 55 ++++ drivers/uio/Kconfig | 16 ++ drivers/uio/Makefile | 1 + drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c | 354 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/platform_data/uio_dmem_genirq.h | 26 ++ 6 files changed, 466 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/uio/uio_dmem_genirq.c create mode 100644 include/linux/platform_data/uio_dmem_genirq.h
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