[PATCH/RFC] arm64: defconfig: Enlarge CMA alignment to 2 MiB

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Jan 27 2017 - 11:12:24 EST


Some IOMMUs (e.g. Renesas IPMMU/VMSA) support only page sizes of 4 KiB,
2 MiB, and 1 GiB.

With the default setting of CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT = 8, allocations larger
than 1 MiB are aligned to a 1 MiB boundary only. Hence a 2 MiB
allocation may not be aligned, leading to a mapping of 512 4 KiB pages.

Increase CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT to allow mapping a 2 MiB buffer using a
single PTE, decreasing memory usage and TLB pressure.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
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Is this useful?

Should there instead be different defaults in Kconfig, depending on
enabled platform support?
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arch/arm64/configs/defconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
index cea17afae855f589..1acc422052050770 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y
+CONFIG_CMA_ALIGNMENT=9
CONFIG_MTD=y
CONFIG_MTD_M25P80=y
CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR=y
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1.9.1