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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2014-10-09 15:29:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:26:02 -0400
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CMA: document cma=0
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> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
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 }