Subject: NOMMU - How to reserve 1 MB in top of memory in a clean way
From: Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.xs4all.nl>
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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:50:28 +0200
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Hey all,

I am currently working on the bfinnommu linux port for the BlackFin 533.
I need to grab the top 1 MB of memory so I can give it out to drivers
that need non-cached memory for DMA operations.

I've tried the following approaches (which each failed, in different
ways):

1. Allocate 1 MB in ZONE_DMA. This doesn't work because ZONE_DMA needs
to be in the bottom of memory (and I couldn't find a way around that),
and needs to be a minimum of 4 MB.
2. Create ZONE_NORMAL with all memory in it, but add a hole of 1 MB.
This crashes in the swapper somewhere.

What I want is a way to cleanly grab all pages in the top megabyte of
memory, so I can give them out in an implementation (to be written) of
dma_alloc_coherent and friends. That top megabyte would be set to
non-cached in the software cache manager.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be great.

Regards,

Bas Vermeulen

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