5 * Contiguous Memory Allocator for DMA mapping framework
6 * Copyright (c) 2010-2011 by Samsung Electronics.
8 * Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
9 * Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
11 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
12 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
13 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
14 * License or (at your optional) any later version of the license.
18 * Contiguous Memory Allocator
20 * The Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) makes it possible to
21 * allocate big contiguous chunks of memory after the system has
26 * Various devices on embedded systems have no scatter-getter and/or
27 * IO map support and require contiguous blocks of memory to
28 * operate. They include devices such as cameras, hardware video
31 * Such devices often require big memory buffers (a full HD frame
32 * is, for instance, more then 2 mega pixels large, i.e. more than 6
33 * MB of memory), which makes mechanisms such as kmalloc() or
34 * alloc_page() ineffective.
36 * At the same time, a solution where a big memory region is
37 * reserved for a device is suboptimal since often more memory is
38 * reserved then strictly required and, moreover, the memory is
39 * inaccessible to page system even if device drivers don't use it.
41 * CMA tries to solve this issue by operating on memory regions
42 * where only movable pages can be allocated from. This way, kernel
43 * can use the memory for pagecache and when device driver requests
44 * it, allocated pages can be migrated.
48 * CMA should not be used by the device drivers directly. It is
49 * only a helper framework for dma-mapping subsystem.
51 * For more information, see kernel-docs in drivers/base/dma-contiguous.c
56 #include <linux/device.h>
63 extern struct cma *dma_contiguous_default_area;
65 static inline struct cma *dev_get_cma_area(struct device *dev)
67 if (dev && dev->cma_area)
69 return dma_contiguous_default_area;
72 static inline void dev_set_cma_area(struct device *dev, struct cma *cma)
78 static inline void dma_contiguous_set_default(struct cma *cma)
80 dma_contiguous_default_area = cma;
83 void dma_contiguous_reserve(phys_addr_t addr_limit);
85 int __init dma_contiguous_reserve_area(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t base,
86 phys_addr_t limit, struct cma **res_cma,
90 * dma_declare_contiguous() - reserve area for contiguous memory handling
91 * for particular device
92 * @dev: Pointer to device structure.
93 * @size: Size of the reserved memory.
94 * @base: Start address of the reserved memory (optional, 0 for any).
95 * @limit: End address of the reserved memory (optional, 0 for any).
97 * This function reserves memory for specified device. It should be
98 * called by board specific code when early allocator (memblock or bootmem)
102 static inline int dma_declare_contiguous(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t size,
103 phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit)
107 ret = dma_contiguous_reserve_area(size, base, limit, &cma, true);
109 dev_set_cma_area(dev, cma);
114 struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, int count,
116 bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,
121 static inline struct cma *dev_get_cma_area(struct device *dev)
126 static inline void dev_set_cma_area(struct device *dev, struct cma *cma) { }
128 static inline void dma_contiguous_set_default(struct cma *cma) { }
130 static inline void dma_contiguous_reserve(phys_addr_t limit) { }
132 static inline int dma_contiguous_reserve_area(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t base,
133 phys_addr_t limit, struct cma **res_cma,
140 int dma_declare_contiguous(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t size,
141 phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit)
147 struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, int count,
154 bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,