[RFC PATCH 00/12] Ion cleanup in preparation for moving out of staging

Laura Abbott
2017-03-02T21:44:32Z

Hi,

There's been some recent discussions[1] about Ion-like frameworks. There's
apparently interest in just keeping Ion since it works reasonablly well.
This series does what should be the final clean ups for it to possibly be
moved out of staging.

This includes the following:
- Some general clean up and removal of features that never got a lot of use
as far as I can tell.
- Fixing up the caching. This is the series I proposed back in December[2]
but never heard any feedback on. It will certainly break existing
applications that rely on the implicit caching. I'd rather make an effort
to move to a model that isn't going directly against the establishement
though.
- Fixing up the platform support. The devicetree approach was never well
recieved by DT maintainers. The proposal here is to think of Ion less as
specifying requirements and more of a framework for exposing memory to
userspace.
- CMA allocations now happen without the need of a dummy device structure.
This fixes a bunch of the reasons why I attempted to add devicetree
support before.

I've had problems getting feedback in the past so if I don't hear any major
objections I'm going to send out with the RFC dropped to be picked up.
The only reason there isn't a patch to come out of staging is to discuss any
other changes to the ABI people might want. Once this comes out of staging,
I really don't want to mess with the ABI.

Feedback appreciated.

Thanks,
Laura

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=148699712602105&w=2
[2] https://marc.info/?l=linaro-mm-sig&m=148176050802908&w=2

Laura Abbott (12):
staging: android: ion: Remove dmap_cnt
staging: android: ion: Remove alignment from allocation field
staging: android: ion: Duplicate sg_table
staging: android: ion: Call dma_map_sg for syncing and mapping
staging: android: ion: Remove page faulting support
staging: android: ion: Remove crufty cache support
staging: android: ion: Remove old platform support
cma: Store a name in the cma structure
cma: Introduce cma_for_each_area
staging: android: ion: Use CMA APIs directly
staging: android: ion: Make Ion heaps selectable
staging; android: ion: Enumerate all available heaps

drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c | 5 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/Kconfig | 51 ++--
drivers/staging/android/ion/Makefile | 14 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Kconfig | 5 -
drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/hi6220_ion.c | 113 ---------
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion-ioctl.c | 6 -
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 282 ++++++---------------
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h | 5 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_carveout_heap.c | 16 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c | 15 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_cma_heap.c | 102 ++------
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c | 156 ------------
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_enumerate.c | 89 +++++++
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.c | 184 --------------
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.h | 37 ---
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_page_pool.c | 3 -
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_priv.h | 57 ++++-
drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c | 14 +-
drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/Makefile | 1 -
drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/tegra_ion.c | 80 ------
include/linux/cma.h | 6 +-
mm/cma.c | 25 +-
mm/cma.h | 1 +
mm/cma_debug.c | 2 +-
25 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 958 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Kconfig
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/hisilicon/hi6220_ion.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_dummy_driver.c
create mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_enumerate.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_of.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/Makefile
delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/android/ion/tegra/tegra_ion.c

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