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[v3,0/2] dma-buf: heaps: Support carved-out heaps

Message ID 20250407-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v3-0-97cdd36a5f29@kernel.org
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Maxime Ripard April 7, 2025, 4:29 p.m. UTC 
Hi,

This series is the follow-up of the discussion that John and I had some
time ago here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANDhNCquJn6bH3KxKf65BWiTYLVqSd9892-xtFDHHqqyrroCMQ@mail.gmail.com/

The initial problem we were discussing was that I'm currently working on
a platform which has a memory layout with ECC enabled. However, enabling
the ECC has a number of drawbacks on that platform: lower performance,
increased memory usage, etc. So for things like framebuffers, the
trade-off isn't great and thus there's a memory region with ECC disabled
to allocate from for such use cases.

After a suggestion from John, I chose to first start using heap
allocations flags to allow for userspace to ask for a particular ECC
setup. This is then backed by a new heap type that runs from reserved
memory chunks flagged as such, and the existing DT properties to specify
the ECC properties.

After further discussion, it was considered that flags were not the
right solution, and relying on the names of the heaps would be enough to
let userspace know the kind of buffer it deals with.

Thus, even though the uAPI part of it has been dropped in this second
version, we still need a driver to create heaps out of carved-out memory
regions. In addition to the original usecase, a similar driver can be
found in BSPs from most vendors, so I believe it would be a useful
addition to the kernel.

I submitted a draft PR to the DT schema for the bindings used in this
PR:
https://github.com/devicetree-org/dt-schema/pull/138

Let me know what you think,
Maxime

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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Changes in v3:
- Reworked global variable patch
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v2-0-043fd006a1af@kernel.org

Changes in v2:
- Add vmap/vunmap operations
- Drop ECC flags uapi
- Rebase on top of 6.14
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515-dma-buf-ecc-heap-v1-0-54cbbd049511@kernel.org

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Maxime Ripard (2):
      dma-buf: heaps: system: Remove global variable
      dma-buf: heaps: Introduce a new heap for reserved memory

 drivers/dma-buf/heaps/Kconfig         |   8 +
 drivers/dma-buf/heaps/Makefile        |   1 +
 drivers/dma-buf/heaps/carveout_heap.c | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/dma-buf/heaps/system_heap.c   |   3 +-
 4 files changed, 370 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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base-commit: fcbf30774e82a441890b722bf0c26542fb82150f
change-id: 20240515-dma-buf-ecc-heap-28a311d2c94e

Best regards,