From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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Cc: "'Michal Nazarewicz'" <mina86@mina86.com>,
"'Kyungmin Park'" <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"'KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki'" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
"'Ankita Garg'" <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
"'Daniel Walker'" <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
"'Mel Gorman'" <mel@csn.ul.ie>, "'Arnd Bergmann'" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"'Jesse Barker'" <jesse.barker@linaro.org>,
"'Jonathan Corbet'" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"'Chunsang Jeong'" <chunsang.jeong@linaro.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 6/8] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:24:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000101cc3afd$cac46ff0$604d4fd0$%szyprowski@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309851710-3828-7-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Hello,
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 9:42 AM Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA
> mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks.
>
> CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with CMA_MIGRATE_TYPE and
> gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate movable pages
> within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for page
> cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On dma_alloc_from_contiguous()
> request such pages are migrated out of CMA area to free required
> contiguous block and fulfill the request. This allows to allocate large
> contiguous chunks of memory at any time assuming that there is enough
> free memory available in the system.
>
> This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
> ---
> drivers/base/Kconfig | 77 +++++++++
> drivers/base/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c | 367
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/dma-contiguous.h | 104 +++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 549 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c
> create mode 100644 include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> index d57e8d0..95ae1a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
> @@ -168,4 +168,81 @@ config SYS_HYPERVISOR
> bool
> default n
>
> +config CMA
> + bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator"
> + depends HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && HAVE_MEMBLOCK
The above line should be obviously "depends on HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS &&
HAVE_MEMBLOCK".
I'm sorry for posting broken version.
(snipped)
Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 7:41 [PATCHv11 0/8] Contiguous Memory Allocator 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 [this message]
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
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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