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To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
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        linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org,
        "'Kyungmin Park'" <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>,
        "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        "'KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki'" <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        "'Ankita Garg'" <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
        "'Daniel Walker'" <dwalker@codeaurora.org>,
        "'Mel Gorman'" <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
        "'Jesse Barker'" <jesse.barker@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: cma: Contiguous Memory Allocator added
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:58:35 +0200
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From: "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
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>> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:49:29 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>> Please explain the exact requirements that lead you to defining  
>>> multiple contexts.

> On Tuesday 14 June 2011, Michal Nazarewicz wrote:
>> Some devices may have access only to some banks of memory.  Some devices
>> may use different banks of memory for different purposes.

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:03:00 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> For all I know, that is something that is only true for a few very  
> special Samsung devices,

Maybe.  I'm just answering your question. :)

Ah yes, I forgot that separate regions for different purposes could
decrease fragmentation.

> I would suggest going forward without having multiple regions:

Is having support for multiple regions a bad thing?  Frankly,
removing this support will change code from reading context passed
as argument to code reading context from global variable.  Nothing
is gained; functionality is lost.

> * Remove the registration of specific addresses from the initial patch
>   set (but keep the patch).
> * Add a heuristic plus command-line override to automatically come up
>   with a reasonable location+size for *one* CMA area in the system.

I'm not arguing those.

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