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From: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@axis.com>,
	linux@arm.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dma-mapping: fix alloc/free for coherent + CMA + gfp=0
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:30:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160223153003.GB22447@lnxrabinv.se.axis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xa1tio1kzu4j.fsf@mina86.com>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 02:50:52PM +0100, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> I haven’t looked closely at the code, but why not:
> 
> 	struct cma *cma = 
>         if (!cma_release(dev_get_cma_area(dev), page, size >> PAGE_SHIFT)) {
> 		// ... do whatever other non-CMA free
> 	}

The page tables changes need to be done before we release the area with
cma_release().  With the v2 patchset which I've sent to LAKML we won't
need a new in_cma() function since we'll now record how we allocated the
buffer and use this information in the free routine.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-23 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-19  8:12 [PATCH 1/2] mm: cma: split out in_cma check to separate function Rabin Vincent
2016-02-19  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: dma-mapping: fix alloc/free for coherent + CMA + gfp=0 Rabin Vincent
2016-02-19 13:50   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2016-02-23 15:30     ` Rabin Vincent [this message]
2016-02-19 14:06   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-02-23 15:23     ` Rabin Vincent
2016-02-19 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: cma: split out in_cma check to separate function Michal Nazarewicz
2016-02-19 21:23 ` Andrew Morton

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