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@@ -5,21 +5,27 @@ CMA Debugfs Interface
The CMA debugfs interface is useful to retrieve basic information out of the
different CMA areas and to test allocation/release in each of the areas.
-Each CMA zone represents a directory under <debugfs>/cma/, indexed by the
-kernel's CMA index. So the first CMA zone would be:
+Each CMA area represents a directory under <debugfs>/cma/, represented by
+its CMA name like below:
- <debugfs>/cma/cma-0
+ <debugfs>/cma/<cma_name>
The structure of the files created under that directory is as follows:
- - [RO] base_pfn: The base PFN (Page Frame Number) of the zone.
+ - [RO] base_pfn: The base PFN (Page Frame Number) of the CMA area.
+ This is the same as ranges/0/base_pfn.
- [RO] count: Amount of memory in the CMA area.
- [RO] order_per_bit: Order of pages represented by one bit.
- - [RO] bitmap: The bitmap of page states in the zone.
+ - [RO] bitmap: The bitmap of allocated pages in the area.
+ This is the same as ranges/0/base_pfn.
+ - [RO] ranges/N/base_pfn: The base PFN of contiguous range N
+ in the CMA area.
+ - [RO] ranges/N/bitmap: The bit map of allocated pages in
+ range N in the CMA area.
- [WO] alloc: Allocate N pages from that CMA area. For example::
- echo 5 > <debugfs>/cma/cma-2/alloc
+ echo 5 > <debugfs>/cma/<cma_name>/alloc
-would try to allocate 5 pages from the cma-2 area.
+would try to allocate 5 pages from the 'cma_name' area.
- [WO] free: Free N pages from that CMA area, similar to the above.