Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] dma-buf: heaps: add chunk heap to dmabuf heaps

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Dec 01 2020 - 17:56:46 EST


On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:48:15AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:51 AM Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for reworking and resending this!
>
> ...
> > +static int __init chunk_heap_init(void)
> > +{
> > + struct cma *default_cma = dev_get_cma_area(NULL);
> > + struct dma_heap_export_info exp_info;
> > + struct chunk_heap *chunk_heap;
> > +
> > + if (!default_cma)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + chunk_heap = kzalloc(sizeof(*chunk_heap), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!chunk_heap)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > + chunk_heap->order = CHUNK_HEAP_ORDER;
> > + chunk_heap->cma = default_cma;
> > +
> > + exp_info.name = cma_get_name(default_cma);
>
> So, this would create a chunk heap name with the default CMA name,
> which would be indistinguishable from the heap name used for the plain
> CMA heap.
>
> Probably a good idea to prefix it with "chunk-" so the heap device
> names are unique?

That will give an impression to user that they are using different CMA
area but that's not true. IMHO, let's be honest at this moment.
When DT binding with CMA is landing down, it could provide unique name.
Thought?