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authorMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2011-12-29 07:09:51 -0500
committerMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2012-05-21 09:09:37 -0400
commitc64be2bb1c6eb43c838b2c6d57b074078be208dd (patch)
treed0720eda4a440ff91f3296b0f90cc53ac514d4b9 /arch/Kconfig
parent49f223a9cd96c7293d7258ff88c2bdf83065f69c (diff)
drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator
The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks. CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with MIGRATE_CMA migrate type and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate only movable pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system. This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org> Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Tested-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com> Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
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diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 684eb5af439..0a3ffe46e56 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
142config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS 142config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
143 bool 143 bool
144 144
145config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
146 bool
147
145config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS 148config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
146 bool 149 bool
147 150