From 5ea3b1b2f8ad9162684431ce6188102ca4c64b7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:06:54 -0700 Subject: cma: add placement specifier for "cma=" kernel parameter Currently, "cma=" kernel parameter is used to specify the size of CMA, but we can't specify where it is located. We want to locate CMA below 4GB for devices only supporting 32-bit addressing on 64-bit systems without iommu. This enables to specify the placement of CMA by extending "cma=" kernel parameter. Examples: 1. locate 64MB CMA below 4GB by "cma=64M@0-4G" 2. locate 64MB CMA exact at 512MB by "cma=64M@512M" Note that the DMA contiguous memory allocator on x86 assumes that page_address() works for the pages to allocate. So this change requires to limit end address of contiguous memory area upto max_pfn_mapped to prevent from locating it on highmem area by the argument of dma_contiguous_reserve(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Don Dutile Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index af55e13ace8f..adea3a22fa00 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -630,8 +630,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable some critical bits. - cma=nn[MG] [ARM,KNL] - Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous + cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]] + [ARM,X86,KNL] + Sets the size of kernel global memory area for + contiguous memory allocations and optionally the + placement constraint by the physical address range of memory allocations. For more information, see include/linux/dma-contiguous.h -- cgit