Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] dt-bindings: reserved-memory: Make DMA-BUF CMA heap DT-configurable

From: Rob Herring
Date: Thu Jan 14 2021 - 09:02:27 EST


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 05:21:42PM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> From: Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Document devicetree binding for chunk cma heap on dma heap framework.
>
> The DMA chunk heap supports the bulk allocation of higher order pages.

Why do we need this? What does this do that CMA doesn't?

With a CMA area I can believe a carve out is a common, OS independent
thing. This looks too closely tied to some Linux thing to go into DT.

>
> Signed-off-by: Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Change-Id: I8fb231e5a8360e2d8f65947e155b12aa664dde01

Drop this.

> ---
> .../reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml | 58 +++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..3e7fed5fb006
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause)
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/reserved-memory/dma_heap_chunk.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Device tree binding for chunk heap on DMA HEAP FRAMEWORK
> +
> +description: |
> + The DMA chunk heap is backed by the Contiguous Memory Allocator (CMA) and
> + supports bulk allocation of fixed size pages.
> +
> +maintainers:
> + - Hyesoo Yu <hyesoo.yu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> + - John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + - Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> + - Hridya Valsaraju<hridya@xxxxxxxxxx>

space ^

> +
> +
> +properties:
> + compatible:
> + enum:
> + - dma_heap,chunk

The format is <vendor>,<something> and 'dma_heap' is not a vendor.

> +
> + chunk-order:
> + description: |
> + order of pages that will get allocated from the chunk DMA heap.
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> + size:
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> + alignment:
> + maxItems: 1
> +
> +required:
> + - compatible
> + - size
> + - alignment
> + - chunk-order
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> + - |
> + reserved-memory {
> + #address-cells = <2>;
> + #size-cells = <1>;
> +
> + chunk_memory: chunk_memory {
> + compatible = "dma_heap,chunk";
> + size = <0x3000000>;
> + alignment = <0x0 0x00010000>;
> + chunk-order = <4>;
> + };
> + };
> +
> +
> --
> 2.30.0.284.gd98b1dd5eaa7-goog
>