On 09/20/2017 01:45 AM, Benjamin Gaignard wrote:
Instead a getting one common device "/dev/ion" for
all the heaps this patch allow to create one device
entry ("/dev/ionX") per heap.
Getting an entry per heap could allow to set security rules
per heap and global ones for all heaps.
Allocation requests will be only allowed if the mask_id
match with device minor.
Query request could be done on any of the devices.
Deivce node major will also change and that may impact init scripts.
We should start Cc linux-api for future changes since we're going
to have more than just /dev/ion.
Thinking about this some more, I think we need to allow backwards
compatibility. It's just not feasible to keep throwing workarounds
into userspace if we can avoid it. I'd propose keeping the old /dev/ion
misc interface available under a Kconfig and then creating the new
split heaps in parallel.
On a somewhat related note, there was some interest in possibly
having a sysfs interface for Ion long term. I don't think this
needs to happen right now but I'd like whatever we do to not
make adding that harder.
Thanks,
Laura
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