drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Song <[email protected]>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -508,6 +508,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Also note the kernel might malfunction if you disable
 			some critical bits.
 
+	cma=nn[MG]	[ARM,KNL]
+			Sets the size of kernel global memory area for contiguous
+			memory allocations. For more information, see
+			include/linux/dma-contiguous.h
+
 	cmo_free_hint=	[PPC] Format: { yes | no }
 			Specify whether pages are marked as being inactive
 			when they are freed.  This is used in CMO environments

arch/Kconfig

@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 config HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
 	bool
 
+config HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
+	bool
+
 config USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 	bool
 

drivers/base/Kconfig

@@ -192,4 +192,93 @@ config DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
 	  APIs extension; the file's descriptor can then be passed on to other
 	  driver.
 
+config CMA
+	bool "Contiguous Memory Allocator (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS && HAVE_MEMBLOCK && EXPERIMENTAL
+	select MIGRATION
+	help
+	  This enables the Contiguous Memory Allocator which allows drivers
+	  to allocate big physically-contiguous blocks of memory for use with
+	  hardware components that do not support I/O map nor scatter-gather.
+
+	  For more information see <include/linux/dma-contiguous.h>.
+	  If unsure, say "n".
+
+if CMA
+
+config CMA_DEBUG
+	bool "CMA debug messages (DEVELOPMENT)"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	help
+	  Turns on debug messages in CMA.  This produces KERN_DEBUG
+	  messages for every CMA call as well as various messages while
+	  processing calls such as dma_alloc_from_contiguous().
+	  This option does not affect warning and error messages.
+
+comment "Default contiguous memory area size:"
+
+config CMA_SIZE_MBYTES
+	int "Size in Mega Bytes"
+	depends on !CMA_SIZE_SEL_PERCENTAGE
+	default 16
+	help
+	  Defines the size (in MiB) of the default memory area for Contiguous
+	  Memory Allocator.
+
+config CMA_SIZE_PERCENTAGE
+	int "Percentage of total memory"
+	depends on !CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES
+	default 10
+	help
+	  Defines the size of the default memory area for Contiguous Memory
+	  Allocator as a percentage of the total memory in the system.
+
+choice
+	prompt "Selected region size"
+	default CMA_SIZE_SEL_ABSOLUTE
+
+config CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES
+	bool "Use mega bytes value only"
+
+config CMA_SIZE_SEL_PERCENTAGE
+	bool "Use percentage value only"
+
+config CMA_SIZE_SEL_MIN
+	bool "Use lower value (minimum)"
+
+config CMA_SIZE_SEL_MAX
+	bool "Use higher value (maximum)"
+
+endchoice
+
+config CMA_ALIGNMENT
+	int "Maximum PAGE_SIZE order of alignment for contiguous buffers"
+	range 4 9
+	default 8
+	help
+	  DMA mapping framework by default aligns all buffers to the smallest
+	  PAGE_SIZE order which is greater than or equal to the requested buffer
+	  size. This works well for buffers up to a few hundreds kilobytes, but
+	  for larger buffers it just a memory waste. With this parameter you can
+	  specify the maximum PAGE_SIZE order for contiguous buffers. Larger
+	  buffers will be aligned only to this specified order. The order is
+	  expressed as a power of two multiplied by the PAGE_SIZE.
+
+	  For example, if your system defaults to 4KiB pages, the order value
+	  of 8 means that the buffers will be aligned up to 1MiB only.
+
+	  If unsure, leave the default value "8".
+
+config CMA_AREAS
+	int "Maximum count of the CMA device-private areas"
+	default 7
+	help
+	  CMA allows to create CMA areas for particular devices. This parameter
+	  sets the maximum number of such device private CMA areas in the
+	  system.
+
+	  If unsure, leave the default value "7".
+
+endif
+
 endmenu

drivers/base/Makefile

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ obj-y			:= core.o bus.o dd.o syscore.o \
 			   attribute_container.o transport_class.o \
 			   topology.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS)	+= devtmpfs.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CMA) += dma-contiguous.o
 obj-y			+= power/
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAS_DMA)	+= dma-mapping.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT) += dma-coherent.o