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Both dma_alloc_from_contiguous() and dma_release_from_contiguous() are
very simply implemented, but requiring callers to pass certain
parameters like count and align, and taking a boolean parameter to check
__GFP_NOWARN in the allocation flags. So every function call duplicates
similar work:
unsigned long order = get_order(size);
size_t count = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous(dev, count, order,
gfp & __GFP_NOWARN);
[...]
dma_release_from_contiguous(dev, page, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
Additionally, as CMA can be used only in the context which permits
sleeping, most of callers do a gfpflags_allow_blocking() check and a
corresponding fallback allocation of normal pages upon any false result:
if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(flag))
page = dma_alloc_from_contiguous();
if (!page)
page = alloc_pages();
[...]
if (!dma_release_from_contiguous(dev, page, count))
__free_pages(page, get_order(size));
So this patch simplifies those function calls by abstracting these
operations into the two new functions: dma_{alloc,free}_contiguous.
As some callers of dma_{alloc,release}_from_contiguous() might be
complicated, this patch just implements these two new functions to
kernel/dma/direct.c only as an initial step.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
Tested-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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