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Is it time to remove ZONE_DMA?

Is it time to remove ZONE_DMA?

Posted May 7, 2018 16:04 UTC (Mon) by timur (guest, #30718)
In reply to: Is it time to remove ZONE_DMA? by arnd
Parent article: Is it time to remove ZONE_DMA?

On ARM, enabling DMA_CMA forces all DMA allocations to be made from the CMA, which means that if your CMA isn't big enough, you'll run out of memory. We've had to set the CMA size to 0 by default for our kernels, otherwise DMA allocations start to fail.


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