Re: [PATCH] staging: android: ion: Add chunk heap initialization

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On 11/25/18 11:40 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 11/25/18 1:22 PM, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/25/18 10:51 PM, Laura Abbott wrote:
>>> On 11/11/18 11:29 AM, Alexey Skidanov wrote:
>>>> Create chunk heap of specified size and base address by adding
>>>> "ion_chunk_heap=size@start" kernel boot parameter.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Skidanov <alexey.skidanov@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>>    drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c | 40
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>    1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c
>>>> b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c
>>>> index 159d72f..67573aa4 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_chunk_heap.c
>>>> @@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ struct ion_heap *ion_chunk_heap_create(struct
>>>> ion_platform_heap *heap_data)
>>>>        }
>>>>        chunk_heap->base = heap_data->base;
>>>>        chunk_heap->size = heap_data->size;
>>>> +    chunk_heap->heap.name = heap_data->name;
>>>>        chunk_heap->allocated = 0;
>>>>          gen_pool_add(chunk_heap->pool, chunk_heap->base,
>>>> heap_data->size, -1);
>>>> @@ -151,3 +152,42 @@ struct ion_heap *ion_chunk_heap_create(struct
>>>> ion_platform_heap *heap_data)
>>>>        return ERR_PTR(ret);
>>>>    }
>>>>    +static u64 base;
>>>> +static u64 size;
>>>> +
>>>> +static int __init setup_heap(char *param)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    char *p, *pp;
>>>> +
>>>> +    size = memparse(param, &p);
>>>> +    if (param == p)
>>>> +        return -EINVAL;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (*p == '@')
>>>> +        base = memparse(p + 1, &pp);
>>>> +    else
>>>> +        return -EINVAL;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (p == pp)
>>>> +        return -EINVAL;
>>>> +
>>>> +    return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>> +__setup("ion_chunk_heap=", setup_heap);
>>>> +
>>>> +static int ion_add_chunk_heap(void)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    struct ion_heap *heap;
>>>> +    struct ion_platform_heap plat_heap = {.base = base,
>>>> +                          .size = size,
>>>> +                          .name = "chunk_heap",
>>>> +                          .priv = (void *)PAGE_SIZE};
>>>> +    heap = ion_chunk_heap_create(&plat_heap);
>>>> +    if (heap)
>>>> +        ion_device_add_heap(heap);
>>>> +
>>>> +    return 0;
>>>> +}
>>>> +device_initcall(ion_add_chunk_heap);
>>>> +
>>>>
>>>
>>> This solves a problem but not enough of the problem.
>>>
>>> We need to be able to support more than one chunk/carveout
>>> heap.
>> This is easy to support.
>> This also assumes that the memory has already been
>>> reserved/placed and that you know the base and size to
>>> pass on the command line. Part of the issue with the carveout
>>> heaps is that we need a way to tell the kernel to reserve
>>> the memory early enough and then get that information to
>>> Ion. Hard coding memory locations tends to be buggy from
>>> my past experience with Ion.
>> memmap= kernel option marks the memory region(s) as reserved (Zone
>> Allocator doesn't use this memory region(s)). So the heap(s) may manage
>> this memory region(s).
> 
> memmap= is x86 only. I really don't like using the command line for
> specifying the base/size as it seems likely to conflict with platforms
> that rely on devicetree for reserving memory regions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Laura
> 
I see ... So probably the better way is the one similar to this
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/dma/contiguous.c#L245
?

Thanks,
Alexey

>>>
>>> If you'd like to see about coming up with a complete solution,
>>> feel free to resubmit but I'm still strongly considering
>>> removing these heaps.
>>>
>> I will add the multiple heaps support and resubmit the patch
>>> Thanks,
>>> Laura
>> Thanks,
>> Alexey
>>
> 
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