On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:29:32AM +0000, Florent Tomasin wrote: > > > On 12/02/2025 10:01, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 09:49:56AM +0000, Florent Tomasin wrote: > >> Note that the CMA patches were initially shared to help reproduce my > >> environment of development, I can isolate them in a separate patch > >> series and include a reference or "base-commit:" tag to it in the > >> Panthor protected mode RFC, to help progress this review in another > >> thread. It will avoid overlapping these two topics: > >> > >> - Multiple standalone CMA heaps support > >> - Panthor protected mode handling > > > > You keep insisting on using CMA here, but it's really not clear to me > > why you would need CMA in the first place. > > > > By CMA, do you mean the CMA allocator, and thus would provide buffers > > through the usual dma_alloc_* API, or would any allocator providing > > physically contiguous memory work? > > You are correct only the CMA allocator is relevant. I needed a way to > sub-allocate from a carved-out memory. I'm still confused, sorry. You're saying that you require CMA but... > > In the latter case, would something like this work: > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v1-1-54cbbd049511@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > Thanks for sharing this link, I was not aware previous work was done > on this aspect. The new carveout heap introduced in the series could > probably be a good alternative. I will play-around with it and share > some updates. ... you seem to be ok with a driver that doesn't use it? Maxime
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