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We recently introduced a 1 GB sized ZONE_DMA to cater for platforms incorporating masters that can address less than 32 bits of DMA, in particular the Raspberry Pi 4, which has 4 or 8 GB of DRAM, but has peripherals that can only address up to 1 GB (and its PCIe host bridge can only access the bottom 3 GB) The DMA layer also needs to be able to allocate memory that is guaranteed to meet those DMA constraints, for bounce buffering as well as allocating the backing for consistent mappings. This is why the 1 GB ZONE_DMA was introduced recently. Unfortunately, it turns out the having a 1 GB ZONE_DMA as well as a ZONE_DMA32 causes problems with kdump, and potentially in other places where allocations cannot cross zone boundaries. Therefore, we should avoid having two separate DMA zones when possible. So, with the help of of_dma_get_max_cpu_address() get the topmost physical address accessible to all DMA masters in system and use that information to fine-tune ZONE_DMA's size. In the absence of addressing limited masters ZONE_DMA will span the whole 32-bit address space, otherwise, in the case of the Raspberry Pi 4 it'll only span the 30-bit address space, and have ZONE_DMA32 cover the rest of the 32-bit address space. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201119175400.9995-6-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.