Linux x86/arm 分配大块物理连续内存
实现一个PCIe设备驱动,需要分配几个128M的物理连续内存作为DMA的缓冲区,受制于伙伴系统最多分配4M,所以需要使用到cma机制,来分配大块的物理连续内存实现通过DMA搬运数据:
硬件平台:x86_64
软件平台:CentOs7.4 linux-3.10.0
linux在x86下支持cma
根据网上的资料看,cma目前应该只能支持x86或者ARM平台,在x86下linux的cma是和swiotlb有关系的,swiotlb是使能的(enable),这种情况下cma是不使能的(disable),所以cma在x86_64下也是不使能的,这是因为swiotlb总是使能的,为了同时使能swiotlb和cma,为内核打补丁:
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 0952ecd..1b6275d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
select HAVE_DMA_ATTRS
- select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if !SWIOTLB
+ select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_OPTPROBES
select HAVE_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/swiotlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/swiotlb.h
index 977f176..ab05d73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/swiotlb.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/swiotlb.h
@@ -29,4 +29,11 @@ static inline void pci_swiotlb_late_init(void)
static inline void dma_mark_clean(void *addr, size_t size) {}
+extern void *x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent(struct device *hwdev, size_t size,
+ dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flags,
+ struct dma_attrs *attrs);
+extern void x86_swiotlb_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+ void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
+ struct dma_attrs *attrs);
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_SWIOTLB_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c
index b574b29..8e3842f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c
@@ -512,