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[v3,8/8] mm: Update DMA zones description

Message ID 20201014191211.27029-9-nsaenzjulienne@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series arm64: Default to 32-bit wide ZONE_DMA | expand

Commit Message

Nicolas Saenz Julienne Oct. 14, 2020, 7:12 p.m. UTC
The default behavior for arm64 changed, so reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
---
 include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig Oct. 15, 2020, 5:40 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:12:10PM +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> The default behavior for arm64 changed, so reflect that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index fb3bf696c05e..4ee2306351b9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -363,8 +363,9 @@ enum zone_type {
>  	 *  - arm only uses ZONE_DMA, the size, up to 4G, may vary depending on
>  	 *    the specific device.
>  	 *
> -	 *  - arm64 has a fixed 1G ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 for the rest of the
> -	 *    lower 4G.
> +	 *  - arm64 uses a single 4GB ZONE_DMA, except on the Raspberry Pi 4,
> +	 *    in which ZONE_DMA covers the first GB and ZONE_DMA32 the rest of
> +	 *    the lower 4GB.

Honestly I think this comment just needs to go away.  We can't really list
every setup in a comment in common code.
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diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index fb3bf696c05e..4ee2306351b9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -363,8 +363,9 @@  enum zone_type {
 	 *  - arm only uses ZONE_DMA, the size, up to 4G, may vary depending on
 	 *    the specific device.
 	 *
-	 *  - arm64 has a fixed 1G ZONE_DMA and ZONE_DMA32 for the rest of the
-	 *    lower 4G.
+	 *  - arm64 uses a single 4GB ZONE_DMA, except on the Raspberry Pi 4,
+	 *    in which ZONE_DMA covers the first GB and ZONE_DMA32 the rest of
+	 *    the lower 4GB.
 	 *
 	 *  - powerpc only uses ZONE_DMA, the size, up to 2G, may vary
 	 *    depending on the specific device.