On Thu 01 Mar 08:23 PST 2018, Loic Pallardy wrote: > @@ -479,6 +481,41 @@ static int rproc_handle_vdev(struct rproc *rproc, struct fw_rsc_vdev *rsc, > goto unwind_vring_allocations; > } > > + /* Initialise vdev subdevice */ > + snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "vdev%dbuffer", rvdev->index); > + rvdev->dev.parent = rproc->dev.parent; > + dev_set_name(&rvdev->dev, "%s#%s", dev_name(rvdev->dev.parent), name); > + dev_set_drvdata(&rvdev->dev, rvdev); > + dma_set_coherent_mask(&rvdev->dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32)); > + > + ret = device_register(&rvdev->dev); > + if (ret) > + goto unwind_vring_allocations; > + > + /* Try to find dedicated vdev buffer carveout */ > + carveout = rproc_find_carveout_by_name(rproc, name); > + > + if (carveout) { > + phys_addr_t pa; > + > + if (carveout->va) { > + dev_warn(dev, "vdev %d buffer carveout already mapped\n", > + rvdev->index); > + pa = rproc_va_to_pa(carveout->va); > + } else { > + /* Use dma address as carveout no memmapped yet */ > + pa = (phys_addr_t)carveout->dma; > + } > + > + /* Associate vdev buffer memory pool to vdev subdevice */ > + ret = dmam_declare_coherent_memory(&rvdev->dev, pa, > + carveout->da, > + carveout->len, > + DMA_MEMORY_EXCLUSIVE); > + if (ret < 0) > + goto unregister_device; > + } > + So with this there will be one more device between rproc->dev and the virtio dev, for the sake of memory management. So e.g. a rpmsg device will still need to allocate memory from dev->parent->parent; which now possibly has a specific dma_mem. Is it not possible to assign the memory to the vdev->dev and allow the virtio devices can allocate memory from their parent device? Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-remoteproc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html