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
63 * There is always at least global CMA area and a few optional device
64 * private areas configured in kernel .config.
66 #define MAX_CMA_AREAS (1 + CONFIG_CMA_AREAS)
68 extern struct cma *dma_contiguous_default_area;
70 void dma_contiguous_reserve(phys_addr_t addr_limit);
71 int dma_declare_contiguous(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t size,
72 phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit);
74 struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, int count,
76 bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,
81 #define MAX_CMA_AREAS (0)
83 static inline void dma_contiguous_reserve(phys_addr_t limit) { }
86 int dma_declare_contiguous(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t size,
87 phys_addr_t base, phys_addr_t limit)
93 struct page *dma_alloc_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, int count,
100 bool dma_release_from_contiguous(struct device *dev, struct page *pages,