From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3 1/4] mm/cma: Move dma contiguous changes into a seperate config Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:03:57 +0530 Message-ID: <87txkdyo0q.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1372743918-12293-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51D28D51.6090305@samsung.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, agraf@suse.de, mina86@mina86.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Marek Szyprowski Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51D28D51.6090305@samsung.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Marek Szyprowski writes: > Hello, > > On 7/2/2013 7:45 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" >> >> We want to use CMA for allocating hash page table and real mode area for >> PPC64. Hence move DMA contiguous related changes into a seperate config >> so that ppc64 can enable CMA without requiring DMA contiguous. >> >> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz >> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras >> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V > > OK. It looks that there is not that much that can be easily shared between > dma-mapping cma provider and ppc/kvm cma allocator. I would prefer to merge > patch 1/4 to my dma-mapping tree, because I plan some significant changes in > cma code, see: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.devicetree/40013/ > I think it is better to keep those changes together. > > For now I've merged your patch with removed defconfig updates. AFAIK such > changes require separate handling to avoid pointless merge conflicts. How do we get the defconfig changes done ? > I've > also prepared a topic branch for-v3.12-cma-dma, available at > git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping, which You can > merge > together with your changes to ppc kernel trees. > Thanks. Will update accordingly as other patches get picked into respective trees -aneesh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org