From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] OMAPFB: use dma_alloc instead of omap's vram
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:52:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AE2E15.2070501@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFyZi52e+BPLFQoSn_scdru=MP2NeBUNUkHnym8W3t90JW2jA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
On 2012-11-21 16:22, Jello huang wrote:
> HI Tomi,
> we need one rank of cma to allocate the memory for driver in kernel
> space .And the default CMA is for allocating memory frome usespace.So
> if we allocate the memory from the
> default CMA zone ,there maybe introduce fragmention to the default CMA
> zone.The kernel space memory donot touch the memory from userspace
Can you elaborate a bit? I didn't understand your point. Are you saying
each kernel driver that uses dma_alloc should have their own CMA zone?
That doesn't make sense...
How do you allocate CMA memory from userspace?
Tomi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-22 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-12 10:25 [PATCH 0/5] OMAPFB: use dma_alloc instead of omap's vram Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 10:25 ` [PATCH 1/5] OMAP: FB: use DMA_BIT_MASK() for fb's coherent_dma_mask Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 10:25 ` [PATCH 2/5] OMAPFB: use dma_alloc_attrs to allocate memory Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 10:25 ` [PATCH 3/5] OMAP: RX51: remove use of vram Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 10:25 ` [PATCH 4/5] OMAP: common.c: remove init call to vram Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 10:25 ` [PATCH 5/5] OMAP: remove vram allocator Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 13:39 ` [PATCH 0/5] OMAPFB: use dma_alloc instead of omap's vram Grazvydas Ignotas
2012-11-12 13:50 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 13:57 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-12 22:50 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-16 7:15 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-20 22:14 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-21 14:22 ` Jello huang
2012-11-22 13:52 ` Tomi Valkeinen [this message]
2012-11-16 9:06 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-19 22:04 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-11-20 15:09 ` Tomi Valkeinen
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