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When CMA was first introduced, its primary use was for DMA allocation and the only way to get CMA memory was to call dma_alloc_coherent. This put Ion in an awkward position since there was no device structure readily available and setting one up messed up the coherency model. These days, CMA can be allocated directly from the APIs. Switch to using this model to avoid needing a dummy device. This also mitigates some of the caching problems (e.g. dma_alloc_coherent only returning uncached memory). Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.