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2012-08-28	mm: cma: fix alignment requirements for contiguous regions	Marek Szyprowski
	Contiguous Memory Allocator requires each of its regions to be aligned in such a way that it is possible to change migration type for all pageblocks holding it and then isolate page of largest possible order from the buddy allocator (which is MAX_ORDER-1). This patch relaxes alignment requirements by one order, because MAX_ORDER alignment is not really needed. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> CC: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
2012-05-21	drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator	Marek Szyprowski
	The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks. CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with MIGRATE_CMA migrate type and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate only movable pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system. This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org> Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org> Tested-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com> Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>