Re: [PATCH] misc: sram: extend usage of reserved partitions
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Sep 21 2015 - 01:30:20 EST
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:40:02AM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> This change adds functionality to operate on reserved SRAM partitions
> described in device tree file. Two partition properties are added,
> "pool" and "export", the first one allows to share a specific partition
> for usage by a kernel consumer in the same manner as it is done for
> the whole SRAM device, and "export" property provides access to some
> SRAM area from userspace over sysfs interface. Practically it is
> possible to specify both properties for an SRAM partition, however
> simultaneous access from a kernel consumer and from userspace is not
> serialized, but still the combination may be useful for debugging
> purpose.
This scares me, why do we need to partition sram off in this manner?
What uses it in this way?
I need some other people to weigh in on this, and at the very least, I
need some DT people to bless the changes there...
thanks,
greg k-h
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