linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] add dma_reserve_coherent_memory()/dma_free_reserved

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Date:	Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:17:48 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	mitov@...p.bas.bg
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] add
 dma_reserve_coherent_memory()/dma_free_reserved_memory() API

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:18:35 +0300
Marin Mitov <mitov@...p.bas.bg> wrote:

> struct device contains a member: struct dma_coherent_mem *dma_mem;
> to hold information for a piece of memory declared dma-coherent.
> Alternatively the same member could also be used to hold preallocated
> dma-coherent memory for latter per-device use.

I think that drivers/base/dma-coherent.c is for architectures to
implement dma_alloc_coherent(). So using it for drivers doesn't look
correct.


> This tric is already used in drivers/staging/dt3155v4l.c
> dt3155_alloc_coherent()/dt3155_free_coherent()
> 
> Here proposed for general use by popular demand from video4linux folks.
> Helps for videobuf-dma-contig framework.

What you guys exactly want to do? If you just want to pre-allocate
coherent memory for latter usage, why dma_pool API (mm/dmapool.c)
doesn't work?
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