Re: [RFC] Using CMA with devicetree generated devices

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Hello,

On 10/26/2012 11:02 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
Is it possible to use the devices generated from device tree for use
with CMA? The API for reserving a CMA region (dma_declare_contiguous)
requires a device pointer to properly associate a region with a device.
By the time the devices from devicetree are actually available
(generally during machine_init), dma_contiguous_remap has already been
called so it's too late to have a properly setup region.

I currently see several options:

1) All CMA devices must be statically declared in the board file
2) Scan the FDT to set up 'dummy' devices early which can later be used
to set up CMA with the 'proper' devices
3) My assumption is completely wrong and the check that I was using is
invalid:

dma_declare_contiguous() must be called very early, before any dynamic structures has been created and before core memory management subsystem has been set up. IMHO it should be possible to add support for DT directly in drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c. CMA code can iterate over DT nodes to initialize its internal structures and then use them once the DT devices are being probed/set-up.

(...)

I'm currently leaning towards setting up #2 unless I'm missing something
obvious here. Thanks.

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

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