RE: staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support

2018-10-08 Thread Skidanov, Alexey
> -Original Message- > From: Laura Abbott [mailto:labb...@redhat.com] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2018 21:26 > To: Skidanov, Alexey ; > de...@driverdev.osuosl.org > Cc: Sumit Semwal > Subject: Re: staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support > > On

Re: staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support

2018-10-08 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/03/2018 01:03 PM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: On 10/03/2018 09:07 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: On 10/02/2018 07:27 AM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: Hi, Sometimes HW requires memory buffer to be aligned in order to be used properly.  Of course, we may overcome the lack of aligned allocation support, bu

Re: staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support

2018-10-03 Thread Alexey Skidanov
On 10/03/2018 09:07 PM, Laura Abbott wrote: > On 10/02/2018 07:27 AM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sometimes HW requires memory buffer to be aligned in order to be used >> properly.  Of course, we may overcome the lack of aligned allocation >> support, but we may easily add it because CMA

Re: staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support

2018-10-03 Thread Laura Abbott
On 10/02/2018 07:27 AM, Alexey Skidanov wrote: Hi, Sometimes HW requires memory buffer to be aligned in order to be used properly. Of course, we may overcome the lack of aligned allocation support, but we may easily add it because CMA and gen_pool (used by several heaps) already support it. Do

staging: android: ion: aligned allocation support

2018-10-02 Thread Alexey Skidanov
Hi, Sometimes HW requires memory buffer to be aligned in order to be used properly. Of course, we may overcome the lack of aligned allocation support, but we may easily add it because CMA and gen_pool (used by several heaps) already support it. Does someone have an objection to add it? Thanks,