These patches add support to configure on-chip SRAM via device-tree node or platform data and to obtain the resulting genalloc pool from the struct device pointer or a phandle pointing at the device tree node. This allows drivers to allocate SRAM with the genalloc API without hard-coding the genalloc pool pointer.
I changed the implementation in genalloc.c since v7. To avoid the global pool list, a devres managed version of gen_pool_create is added, and gen_pool_find_by_phys of the previous versions is replaced by dev_get_gen_pool, that retrieves a gen_pool created with devm_gen_pool_create from the corresponding device pointer. of_get_named_gen_pool is called unchanged. The on-chip SRAM on i.MX53 and i.MX6q can be registered via device tree and changed to use the simple generic SRAM driver: ocram: ocram@00900000 { compatible = "fsl,imx-ocram", "sram"; reg = <0x00900000 0x3f000>; }; A driver that needs to allocate SRAM buffers, like the video processing unit on i.MX53, can retrieve the genalloc pool from a phandle in the device tree using of_get_named_gen_pool(node, "iram", 0) from patch 1: vpu@63ff4000 { /* ... */ iram = <&ocram>; }; Changes since v7: - Removed the global pool list in genalloc. Instead, added a devres managed version of gen_pool_create, replacing gen_pool_find_by_phys with dev_get_gen_pool (and made of_get_named_gen_pool use that) - In the coda driver, switched to dev_get_gen_pool and added a platform_data struct to pass the SRAM device pointer (instead of using a second IO memory resource). Added device tree binding documentation. regards Philipp --- Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/coda.txt | 30 ++++++ Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/sram.txt | 17 +++ arch/arm/boot/dts/imx53.dtsi | 5 + arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi | 6 ++ drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/media/platform/coda.c | 45 +++++--- drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 ++ drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/sram.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/genalloc.h | 15 +++ include/linux/platform_data/coda.h | 18 ++++ lib/genalloc.c | 81 +++++++++++++++ 12 files changed, 334 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/