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* [PATCH] CMA: Document cma=0
@ 2014-10-04 12:36 Jean Delvare
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From: Jean Delvare @ 2014-10-04 12:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: Joonsoo Kim, Greg Kroah-Hartman

It isn't obvious that CMA can be disabled on the kernel's command
line, so document it.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 ++-
 drivers/base/Kconfig                |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-3.17-rc7.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2014-09-23 13:19:06.644838292 +0200
+++ linux-3.17-rc7/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2014-10-04 14:10:03.257579721 +0200
@@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes
 			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
 			contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
 			placement constraint by the physical address range of
-			memory allocations. For more information, see
+			memory allocations. A value of 0 disables CMA
+			altogether. For more information, see
 			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
 
 	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
--- linux-3.17-rc7.orig/drivers/base/Kconfig	2014-09-12 16:23:14.911353676 +0200
+++ linux-3.17-rc7/drivers/base/Kconfig	2014-10-04 13:41:37.672347240 +0200
@@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ config DMA_CMA
 	  to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory for use with
 	  hardware components that do not support I/O map nor scatter-gather.
 
+	  You can disable CMA by specifying "cma=0" on the kernel's command
+	  line.
+
 	  For more information see <include/linux/dma-contiguous.h>.
 	  If unsure, say "n".
 


-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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