linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5 v2] dma-buf: heaps: Add CMA heap to dmabuf heapss

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Date:   Fri, 15 Mar 2019 02:06:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...aro.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Liam Mark <lmark@...eaurora.org>,
        Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@....com>,
        "Andrew F . Davis" <afd@...com>, Chenbo Feng <fengc@...gle.com>,
        Alistair Strachan <astrachan@...gle.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5 v2] dma-buf: heaps: Add CMA heap to dmabuf heapss

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 12:54:32PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> This adds a CMA heap, which allows userspace to allocate
> a dma-buf of contiguous memory out of a CMA region.

With my previous suggestion of DMA API usage you'd get CMA support for
free in the system one instead of all this duplicate code..