Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: cma: Always consider a 0 base address reservation as dynamic

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Thu Oct 23 2014 - 19:50:47 EST


Hi Michal,

On Thursday 23 October 2014 18:55:20 Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23 2014, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > The fixed parameter to cma_declare_contiguous() tells the function
> > whether the given base address must be honoured or should be considered
> > as a hint only. The API considers a zero base address as meaning any
> > base address, which must never be considered as a fixed value.
> >
> > Part of the implementation correctly checks both fixed and base != 0,
> > but two locations check the fixed value only. Set fixed to false when
> > base is 0 to fix that and simplify the code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart
> > <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And like before, this should also probably also go to stable.

v3.17 and older don't have the extra fixed checks, so I don't think there's a
need to Cc stable.

> > ---
> >
> > mm/cma.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
> > index 16c6650..6b14346 100644
> > --- a/mm/cma.c
> > +++ b/mm/cma.c
> > @@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
> > size = ALIGN(size, alignment);
> > limit &= ~(alignment - 1);
> >
> > + if (!base)
> > + fixed = false;
> > +
> > /* size should be aligned with order_per_bit */
> > if (!IS_ALIGNED(size >> PAGE_SHIFT, 1 << order_per_bit))
> > return -EINVAL;
> > @@ -262,7 +265,7 @@ int __init cma_declare_contiguous(phys_addr_t base,
> > }
> >
> > /* Reserve memory */
> > - if (base && fixed) {
> > + if (fixed) {
> > if (memblock_is_region_reserved(base, size) ||
> > memblock_reserve(base, size) < 0) {
> > ret = -EBUSY;

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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