drm: allow to use mmuless SoC
Some SoC without MMU have display driver where a drm/kms driver
could be implemented.
Before doing such kind of thing drm/kms must allow to use mmuless devices.
This patch propose to remove MMU configuration flag and add a cma helper
function to help implementing mmuless display driver
version 4:
- add documentation about drm_gem_cma_get_unmapped_area()
- stub it MMU case
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
[danvet: Use recommended struct member references in kernel-doc.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1483521177-21794-4-git-send-email-benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
index d3c6d77..1ea94fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
@@ -310,6 +310,17 @@
Drivers that want to map the GEM object upfront instead of handling page
faults can implement their own mmap file operation handler.
+For platforms without MMU the GEM core provides a helper method
+:c:func:`drm_gem_cma_get_unmapped_area`. The mmap() routines will call
+this to get a proposed address for the mapping.
+
+To use :c:func:`drm_gem_cma_get_unmapped_area`, drivers must fill the
+struct :c:type:`struct file_operations <file_operations>` get_unmapped_area
+field with a pointer on :c:func:`drm_gem_cma_get_unmapped_area`.
+
+More detailed information about get_unmapped_area can be found in
+Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
+
Memory Coherency
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