Hello, When we allocate cma memory using dma_alloc_attr using DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute. It will return physical address without virtual mapping and thats the use case of this attribute. but lets say some vpu/gpu drivers required virtual mapping of some part of the allocation. then we dont have anything to remap that allocated memory to virtual memory. and in 32-bit system it difficult for devices like android to work all the time with virtual mapping, it degrade the performance. For Example : Lets say 4k video allocation required 300MB cma memory but not required virtual mapping for all the 300MB, its require only 20MB virtually mapped at some specific use case/point of video, and unmap virtual mapping after uses, at that time this functions will be useful, it works like ioremap() for cma_alloc() using dma apis. /* * function call(s) to create virtual map of given physical memory * range [base, base+size) of CMA memory. */ void *cma_remap(__u32 base, __u32 size) { struct page *page = phys_to_page(base); void *virt; pr_debug("cma: request to map 0x%08x for size 0x%08x\n", base, size); size = PAGE_ALIGN(size); pgprot_t prot = get_dma_pgprot(DMA_ATTR, PAGE_KERNEL); if (PageHighMem(page)){ virt = dma_alloc_remap(page, size, GFP_KERNEL, prot, __builtin_return_address(0)); } else { dma_remap(page, size, prot); virt = page_address(page); } if (!virt) pr_err("\x1b[31m" " cma: failed to map 0x%08x" "\x1b[0m\n", base); else pr_debug("cma: 0x%08x is virtually mapped to 0x%08x\n", base, (__u32) virt); return virt; } /* * function call(s) to remove virtual map of given virtual memory * range [virt, virt+size) of CMA memory. */ void cma_unmap(void *virt, __u32 size) { size = PAGE_ALIGN(size); unsigned long pfn = virt_to_pfn(virt); struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn); if (PageHighMem(page)) dma_free_remap(virt, size); else dma_remap(page, size, PAGE_KERNEL); pr_debug(" cma: virtual address 0x%08x is unmapped\n", (__u32) virt); } This functions should be added in arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c file. Please let me know if i am missing anything. Regards, Pankaj