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Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:36:25 +0100
From:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:	'Andrew Morton' <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org,
	'Michal Nazarewicz' <mina86@...a86.com>,
	'Kyungmin Park' <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	'Russell King' <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	'KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki' <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	'Daniel Walker' <dwalker@...eaurora.org>,
	'Mel Gorman' <mel@....ul.ie>, 'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@...db.de>,
	'Jesse Barker' <jesse.barker@...aro.org>,
	'Jonathan Corbet' <corbet@....net>,
	'Shariq Hasnain' <shariq.hasnain@...aro.org>,
	'Chunsang Jeong' <chunsang.jeong@...aro.org>,
	'Dave Hansen' <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	'Benjamin Gaignard' <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>,
	'Rob Clark' <rob.clark@...aro.org>,
	'Ohad Ben-Cohen' <ohad@...ery.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCHv22 14/16] X86: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem

Hi Andrew,

On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:18 AM Andrew Morton wrote:

> > This patch adds support for CMA to dma-mapping subsystem for x86
> > architecture that uses common pci-dma/pci-nommu implementation. This
> > allows to test CMA on KVM/QEMU and a lot of common x86 boxes.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> > @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ config X86
> >  	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
> >  	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> >  	select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
> > +	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB
> >  	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
> >  	select HAVE_OPTPROBES
> >  	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
> 
> I don't think it's compilable at all for x86_64, because that platform
> selects SWIOTLB.

Right, x86 support is very basic, mainly for being able to test it on standard 
configuration with QEmu.

> After a while I got it to compile for i386.  arm didn't go so well,
> partly because arm allmodconfig is presently horked (something to do
> with Kconfig not setting PHYS_OFFSET) and partly because arm defconfig
> doesn't permit CMA to be set.  Got bored, gave up.

I think that all*config are broken on ARM. To enable CMA compilation, one need to 
select a subplatform based on ARMv6+ - for example one can start from 
arch/arm/configs/exynos4_defconfig and then use oldnoconfig.

> The patchset collides pretty seriously with pending dma api changes and
> pending arm changes in linux-next, so I didn't apply anything.  This
> will all need to be looked at, please.
> 
> I'll make do with reading the patches for now ;)

I've rebased the CMA patchset on top of next-20120222 kernel tree and I will send 
them soon as v23.

I hope this will help getting them merged to your tree. If I should select different
base for the patches, just let me know.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center


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