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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2014-08-06 16:05:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:16 -0700
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CMA: generalize CMA reserved area management functionality
Currently, there are two users on CMA functionality, one is the DMA subsystem and the other is the KVM on powerpc. They have their own code to manage CMA reserved area even if they looks really similar. From my guess, it is caused by some needs on bitmap management. KVM side wants to maintain bitmap not for 1 page, but for more size. Eventually it use bitmap where one bit represents 64 pages. When I implement CMA related patches, I should change those two places to apply my change and it seem to be painful to me. I want to change this situation and reduce future code management overhead through this patch. This change could also help developer who want to use CMA in their new feature development, since they can use CMA easily without copying & pasting this reserved area management code. In previous patches, we have prepared some features to generalize CMA reserved area management and now it's time to do it. This patch moves core functions to mm/cma.c and change DMA APIs to use these functions. There is no functional change in DMA APIs. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
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@@ -508,6 +508,17 @@ config CMA_DEBUG
processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
This option does not affect warning and error messages.
+config CMA_AREAS
+ int "Maximum count of the CMA areas"
+ depends on CMA
+ default 7
+ help
+ CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular purpose, mainly,
+ used as device private area. This parameter sets the maximum
+ number of CMA area in the system.
+
+ If unsure, leave the default value "7".
+
config ZBUD
tristate
default n