linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] dma-buf: heaps: Create a CMA heap for each CMA reserved region

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Message-ID: <20250826-vagabond-catfish-of-courtesy-cbfa76@houat>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:36:00 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>, 
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>, Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>, 
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	"T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@...gle.com>, Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>, 
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>, Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, 
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Andrew Davis <afd@...com>, Jared Kangas <jkangas@...hat.com>, 
	Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/5] dma-buf: heaps: Create a CMA heap for each CMA
 reserved region

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 01:17:29PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Here's another attempt at supporting user-space allocations from a
> specific carved-out reserved memory region.
> 
> The initial problem we were discussing was that I'm currently working on
> a platform which has a memory layout with ECC enabled. However, enabling
> the ECC has a number of drawbacks on that platform: lower performance,
> increased memory usage, etc. So for things like framebuffers, the
> trade-off isn't great and thus there's a memory region with ECC disabled
> to allocate from for such use cases.
> 
> After a suggestion from John, I chose to first start using heap
> allocations flags to allow for userspace to ask for a particular ECC
> setup. This is then backed by a new heap type that runs from reserved
> memory chunks flagged as such, and the existing DT properties to specify
> the ECC properties.
> 
> After further discussion, it was considered that flags were not the
> right solution, and relying on the names of the heaps would be enough to
> let userspace know the kind of buffer it deals with.
> 
> Thus, even though the uAPI part of it had been dropped in this second
> version, we still needed a driver to create heaps out of carved-out memory
> regions. In addition to the original usecase, a similar driver can be
> found in BSPs from most vendors, so I believe it would be a useful
> addition to the kernel.
> 
> Some extra discussion with Rob Herring [1] came to the conclusion that
> some specific compatible for this is not great either, and as such an
> new driver probably isn't called for either.
> 
> Some other discussions we had with John [2] also dropped some hints that
> multiple CMA heaps might be a good idea, and some vendors seem to do
> that too.
> 
> So here's another attempt that doesn't affect the device tree at all and
> will just create a heap for every CMA reserved memory region.
> 
> It also falls nicely into the current plan we have to support cgroups in
> DRM/KMS and v4l2, which is an additional benefit.
> 
> Let me know what you think,
> Maxime

Any chance we can get this merged?

Maxime

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