1 *** Reserved memory regions ***
3 Reserved memory is specified as a node under the /reserved-memory node.
4 The operating system shall exclude reserved memory from normal usage
5 one can create child nodes describing particular reserved (excluded from
6 normal use) memory regions. Such memory regions are usually designed for
7 the special usage by various device drivers.
9 Parameters for each memory region can be encoded into the device tree
10 with the following nodes:
14 #address-cells, #size-cells (required) - standard definition
15 - Should use the same values as the root node
16 ranges (required) - standard definition
19 /reserved-memory/ child nodes
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21 Each child of the reserved-memory node specifies one or more regions of
22 reserved memory. Each child node may either use a 'reg' property to
23 specify a specific range of reserved memory, or a 'size' property with
24 optional constraints to request a dynamically allocated block of memory.
26 Following the generic-names recommended practice, node names should
27 reflect the purpose of the node (ie. "framebuffer" or "dma-pool"). Unit
28 address (@<address>) should be appended to the name if the node is a
32 Requires either a) or b) below.
34 reg (required) - standard definition
36 size (required) - length based on parent's #size-cells
37 - Size in bytes of memory to reserve.
38 alignment (optional) - length based on parent's #size-cells
39 - Address boundary for alignment of allocation.
40 alloc-ranges (optional) - prop-encoded-array (address, length pairs).
41 - Specifies regions of memory that are
42 acceptable to allocate from.
44 If both reg and size are present, then the reg property takes precedence
47 Additional properties:
48 compatible (optional) - standard definition
49 - may contain the following strings:
50 - shared-dma-pool: This indicates a region of memory meant to be
51 used as a shared pool of DMA buffers for a set of devices. It can
52 be used by an operating system to instantiate the necessary pool
53 management subsystem if necessary.
54 - vendor specific string in the form <vendor>,[<device>-]<usage>
55 no-map (optional) - empty property
56 - Indicates the operating system must not create a virtual mapping
57 of the region as part of its standard mapping of system memory,
58 nor permit speculative access to it under any circumstances other
59 than under the control of the device driver using the region.
60 reusable (optional) - empty property
61 - The operating system can use the memory in this region with the
62 limitation that the device driver(s) owning the region need to be
63 able to reclaim it back. Typically that means that the operating
64 system can use that region to store volatile or cached data that
65 can be otherwise regenerated or migrated elsewhere.
67 A node must not carry both the no-map and the reusable property as these are
68 logically contradictory.
70 Linux implementation note:
71 - If a "linux,cma-default" property is present, then Linux will use the
72 region for the default pool of the contiguous memory allocator.
74 - If a "linux,dma-default" property is present, then Linux will use the
75 region for the default pool of the consistent DMA allocator.
77 Device node references to reserved memory
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79 Regions in the /reserved-memory node may be referenced by other device
80 nodes by adding a memory-region property to the device node.
82 memory-region (optional) - phandle, specifier pairs to children of /reserved-memory
83 memory-region-names (optional) - a list of names, one for each corresponding
84 entry in the memory-region property
88 This example defines 3 contiguous regions are defined for Linux kernel:
89 one default of all device drivers (named linux,cma@72000000 and 64MiB in size),
90 one dedicated to the framebuffer device (named framebuffer@78000000, 8MiB), and
91 one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
98 reg = <0x40000000 0x40000000>;
102 #address-cells = <1>;
106 /* global autoconfigured region for contiguous allocations */
108 compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
111 alignment = <0x2000>;
115 display_reserved: framebuffer@78000000 {
116 reg = <0x78000000 0x800000>;
119 multimedia_reserved: multimedia@77000000 {
120 compatible = "acme,multimedia-memory";
121 reg = <0x77000000 0x4000000>;
127 fb0: video@12300000 {
128 memory-region = <&display_reserved>;
132 scaler: scaler@12500000 {
133 memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;
137 codec: codec@12600000 {
138 memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;