The patch titled
Subject: Documentation: remove CMA's dependency on architecture
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
documentation-remove-cmas-dependency-on-architecture.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/documentation-remove-cmas-dependency-on-architecture.patch
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https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/documentation-remove-cmas-dependency-on-architecture.patch
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From: Tian Tao <tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Documentation: remove CMA's dependency on architecture
CMA only depends on MMU. It doesn't depend on arch too much. such as
ARM, ARM64, X86, MIPS etc. so We remove the dependency of cma about the
architecture in kernel-parameters.txt.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600412758-60545-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt~documentation-remove-cmas-dependency-on-architecture
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@
some critical bits.
cma=nn[MG]@[start[MG][-end[MG]]]
- [ARM,X86,KNL]
+ [KNL,CMA]
Sets the size of kernel global memory area for
contiguous memory allocations and optionally the
placement constraint by the physical address range of
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from tiantao6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-remove-duplicate-include-statement-in-mmuc.patch
documentation-remove-cmas-dependency-on-architecture.patch
