On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:34:03AM +0530, Taniya Das wrote: > I have a requirement where I need around ~100 bytes of memory to save > contents of > registers to a non-cached area before going into low power mode. > > I did do some analysis on a 1GB RAM device of allocating 8 bytes using > the API and the below was the result > was showing allocating only 8 bytes. > > API used : - arm_memblock_steal(SZ_8, SZ_64K);--> physical address > returned is 0x3b1f0000 It's silly to use this for the above purpose. Why not just use kmalloc and cache flushing to ensure that the data is pushed out to RAM? > Also is this API advisable for devices with low system RAM? No. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
