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CMA region absolutely for a particular device?

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Hi,

I'm using a separate CMA region than the system default one for
a particular device to avoid fragmentation.  It does help.  But under
certain circumstance (memory shortage), it seems some of the pages in
the region will be used by system.  The really bad thing is that when
a CMA allocation tries to move these occupied pages around, it just
fails to do so with messages like "alloc_contig_range: ... PFNs busy".
These pages thus become holes in a contiguous block and prevent the
allocation from succeeding.

Is it possible to make a CMA absolutely for a particular device, and
even system movable pages cannot use the memory?  I can reserve a memory
region from kernel and manage it with some custom and private interface
for that particular device.  But obviously, the standard dma-mapping API
and established underneath CMA infrastructural is more desirable to use,
right?

This is an arm64 device running on 4.1 kernel.  Any comments or
suggestions will be appreciated.  Thanks.

Shawn

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CMA region absolutely for a particular device? Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> - 2016-06-07 15:10 +0200
  Re: CMA region absolutely for a particular device? Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> - 2016-06-07 18:00 +0200
    Re: CMA region absolutely for a particular device? Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 13:10 +0200

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