Re: dma_declare_coherent_memory on main memory

From: Rob Landley
Date: Sat Dec 08 2018 - 16:27:15 EST


On 12/7/18 9:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the ARM imx27/31 ports and various sh boards use
> dma_declare_coherent_memory on main memory taken from the memblock
> allocator.
>
> Is there any good reason these couldn't be switched to CMA areas?
> Getting rid of these magic dma_declare_coherent_memory area would
> help making the dma allocator a lot simpler.

Not that I know of?

Rob