Re: [PATCH 8/9] dt-bindings: reserved-memory: MediaTek: Add reserved memory for SVP

From: Jaskaran Singh
Date: Mon Nov 20 2023 - 03:21:02 EST




On 11/6/2023 11:26 AM, Yong Wu (吴勇) wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-11-01 at 11:20 +0530, Jaskaran Singh wrote:
>>
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>> On 10/20/2023 3:20 PM, Yong Wu (吴勇) wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2023-10-19 at 10:16 +0530, Vijayanand Jitta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Instead of having a vendor specific binding for cma area, How
>> about
>>>> retrieving
>>>>
>>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1594948208-4739-1-git-send-email-hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>>>> ?
>>>> dma_heap_add_cma can just associate cma region and create a heap.
>> So,
>>>> we can reuse cma heap
>>>> code for allocation instead of replicating that code here.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reference. I guess we can't use it. There are two
>>> reasons:
>>>
>>> a) The secure heap driver is a pure software driver and we have no
>>> device for it, therefore we cannot call dma_heap_add_cma.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Yong,
>>
>> We're considering using struct cma as the function argument to
>> dma_heap_add_cma() rather than struct device. Would this help
>> resolve the problem of usage with dma_heap_add_cma()?
>
> Yes. If we use "struct cma", I guess it works.
>

Great; I've posted a v2[1] for the API incorporating this change.

Thanks,
Jaskaran.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231117100337.5215-1-quic_jasksing@xxxxxxxxxxx/