Re: [Linaro-mm-sig] [PATCH 3/3] ARM: Kirkwood: increase atomic coherent pool size

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:47:28PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:

The default 256 KiB coherent pool may be too small for some of the Kirkwood devices, so increase it to make sure that devices will be able to allocate their buffers with GFP_ATOMIC flag.

[...]

• /*

• * Some Kirkwood devices allocate their coherent buffers from atomic
  

• * context. Increase size of atomic coherent pool to make sure such
  

• * the allocations won't fail.
  

• */
  

• init_dma_coherent_pool_size(SZ_1M);

Not sure if it's a valid use case, but what if some user wants to drop e.g. SATA driver and and free up some memory. Would a smaller coherent pool kernel parameter override this code in that case?

A.