[PATCH v6 2/2] dma-buf: heaps: cma: Create CMA heap for each CMA reserved region
Andrew Davis
afd at ti.com
Wed Jul 9 16:14:37 UTC 2025
On 7/9/25 7:44 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Aside from the main CMA region, it can be useful to allow userspace to
> allocate from the other CMA reserved regions.
>
> Indeed, those regions can have specific properties that can be useful to
> a specific us-case.
>
> For example, one of them platform I've been with has ECC enabled on the
> entire memory but for a specific region. Using that region to allocate
> framebuffers can be particular beneficial because enabling the ECC has a
> performance and memory footprint cost.
>
> Thus, exposing these regions as heaps user-space can allocate from and
> import wherever needed allows to cover that use-case.
>
> For now, only shared-dma-pools regions with the reusable property (ie,
> backed by CMA) are supported, but eventually we'll want to support other
> DMA pools types.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> index 0df007111975447d555714d61ead9699287fd65a..31a18683ee25788a800f3f878fd958718a930ff7 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/heaps/cma_heap.c
> @@ -19,10 +19,12 @@
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> +#include <linux/of.h>
> +#include <linux/of_reserved_mem.h>
> #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>
> #define DEFAULT_CMA_NAME "default_cma_region"
> @@ -421,7 +423,55 @@ static int __init add_default_cma_heap(void)
> ERR_PTR(ret));
> }
>
> return 0;
> }
> -module_init(add_default_cma_heap);
> +
> +static int __init add_cma_heaps(void)
> +{
> + struct device_node *rmem_node;
> + struct device_node *node;
> + int ret;
> +
> + ret = add_default_cma_heap();
Will this double add the default CMA region if it was declared
using DT (reserved-memory) when all those nodes are again scanned
through below? Might need a check in that loop for linux,cma-default.
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> +
> + rmem_node = of_find_node_by_path("/reserved-memory");
> + if (!rmem_node)
> + goto out;
Can just return here, "out" path doesn't need to put a NULL node.
Andrew
> +
> + for_each_child_of_node(rmem_node, node) {
> + struct reserved_mem *rmem;
> + struct cma *cma;
> +
> + rmem = of_reserved_mem_lookup(node);
> + if (!rmem) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto err_put_node;
> + }
> +
> + if (!of_reserved_mem_is_contiguous(rmem))
> + continue;
> +
> + cma = rmem->priv;
> + if (!cma) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto err_put_node;
> + }
> +
> + ret = __add_cma_heap(cma, of_node_full_name(node));
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_put_node;
> + }
> +
> +out:
> + of_node_put(rmem_node);
> + return 0;
> +
> +err_put_node:
> + of_node_put(rmem_node);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +module_init(add_cma_heaps);
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DMA-BUF CMA Heap");
>
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