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From: mitchelh@codeaurora•org (Mitchel Humpherys)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] WIP: Devicetree bindings for Ion
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:39:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vnkwh9lwlymo.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL_JsqJ+i3zC7UJ3BcdtOhdmQd8YnRC7bs3D2Ei5JD-4-C+A0g@mail.gmail.com> (Rob Herring's message of "Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:35:41 -0500")

On Tue, Oct 06 2015 at 05:35:41 PM, Rob Herring <robherring2@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject•org> wrote:

[...]

>> +Example:
>> +
>> +       ion {
>> +               compatbile = "linux,ion";
>> +               #address-cells = <1>;
>> +               #size-cells = <0>;
>> +
>> +               ion-system-heap {
>> +                       linux,ion-heap-id = <0>;
>> +                       linux,ion-heap-type = <ION_SYSTEM_HEAP_TYPE>;
>> +                       linux,ion-heap-name = "system";
>
> How does this vary across platforms? Is all of this being pushed down
> to DT, because there is no coordination of this at the kernel ABI
> level across platforms. In other words, why can't heap 0 be hardcoded
> as system heap in the driver. It seems to me any 1 of these 3
> properties could be used to derive the other 2.

The heap-id<->heap-type mapping isn't necessarily 1:1.  As Laura
indicated elsewhere on this thread, a given heap might need to be
contiguous on one platform but not on another.  In that case you just
swap out the heap-type here and there's no need for userspace to change.

The heap-name, OTOH, could be derived from the heap-id, which is what we
hackishly do here [1] and here[2].

[1] https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.14/tree/drivers/staging/android/ion/msm/msm_ion.c?h=msm-3.14#n53
[2] https://www.codeaurora.org/cgit/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.14/tree/drivers/staging/android/ion/msm/msm_ion.c?h=msm-3.14#n398


-Mitch

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-12 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 20:47 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Devicetree bindings for Ion Laura Abbott
2015-10-06 20:47 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/2] WIP: " Laura Abbott
2015-10-06 22:35   ` Rob Herring
2015-10-06 23:01     ` Laura Abbott
2015-10-07 10:36       ` Andrew
2015-10-07 18:36         ` Rob Herring
2015-10-07 19:23           ` Andrew
2015-10-08  1:43           ` Laura Abbott
2015-10-12 18:39     ` Mitchel Humpherys [this message]
2015-10-13  8:14       ` Andrew
2015-10-20 16:34         ` Mitchel Humpherys
2015-10-22 10:36           ` andrew at ncrmnt.org
2015-10-22 17:23             ` Laura Abbott
2015-10-06 20:47 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] staging: ion: Add files for parsing the devicetree (WIP) Laura Abbott
2015-10-06 21:29   ` kbuild test robot
2015-10-06 21:29   ` [RFC PATCH] staging: ion: ion_parse_dt_heap_common() can be static kbuild test robot
2015-10-06 21:30   ` [RFC][PATCH 2/2] staging: ion: Add files for parsing the devicetree (WIP) Andrew

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