1*** Reserved memory regions ***
2
3Reserved memory is specified as a node under the /reserved-memory node.
4The operating system shall exclude reserved memory from normal usage
5one can create child nodes describing particular reserved (excluded from
6normal use) memory regions. Such memory regions are usually designed for
7the special usage by various device drivers.
8
9Parameters for each memory region can be encoded into the device tree
10with the following nodes:
11
12/reserved-memory node
13---------------------
14#address-cells, #size-cells (required) - standard definition
15    - Should use the same values as the root node
16ranges (required) - standard definition
17    - Should be empty
18
19/reserved-memory/ child nodes
20-----------------------------
21Each child of the reserved-memory node specifies one or more regions of
22reserved memory. Each child node may either use a 'reg' property to
23specify a specific range of reserved memory, or a 'size' property with
24optional constraints to request a dynamically allocated block of memory.
25
26Following the generic-names recommended practice, node names should
27reflect the purpose of the node (ie. "framebuffer" or "dma-pool"). Unit
28address (@<address>) should be appended to the name if the node is a
29static allocation.
30
31Properties:
32Requires either a) or b) below.
33a) static allocation
34   reg (required) - standard definition
35b) dynamic allocation
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.
43
44If both reg and size are present, then the reg property takes precedence
45and size is ignored.
46
47Additional properties:
48compatible (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 instanciate the necessary pool
53          management subsystem if necessary.
54        - vendor specific string in the form <vendor>,[<device>-]<usage>
55no-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.
60reusable (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.
66
67Linux implementation note:
68- If a "linux,cma-default" property is present, then Linux will use the
69  region for the default pool of the contiguous memory allocator.
70
71Device node references to reserved memory
72-----------------------------------------
73Regions in the /reserved-memory node may be referenced by other device
74nodes by adding a memory-region property to the device node.
75
76memory-region (optional) - phandle, specifier pairs to children of /reserved-memory
77
78Example
79-------
80This example defines 3 contiguous regions are defined for Linux kernel:
81one default of all device drivers (named linux,cma@72000000 and 64MiB in size),
82one dedicated to the framebuffer device (named framebuffer@78000000, 8MiB), and
83one for multimedia processing (named multimedia-memory@77000000, 64MiB).
84
85/ {
86	#address-cells = <1>;
87	#size-cells = <1>;
88
89	memory {
90		reg = <0x40000000 0x40000000>;
91	};
92
93	reserved-memory {
94		#address-cells = <1>;
95		#size-cells = <1>;
96		ranges;
97
98		/* global autoconfigured region for contiguous allocations */
99		linux,cma {
100			compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
101			reusable;
102			size = <0x4000000>;
103			alignment = <0x2000>;
104			linux,cma-default;
105		};
106
107		display_reserved: framebuffer@78000000 {
108			reg = <0x78000000 0x800000>;
109		};
110
111		multimedia_reserved: multimedia@77000000 {
112			compatible = "acme,multimedia-memory";
113			reg = <0x77000000 0x4000000>;
114		};
115	};
116
117	/* ... */
118
119	fb0: video@12300000 {
120		memory-region = <&display_reserved>;
121		/* ... */
122	};
123
124	scaler: scaler@12500000 {
125		memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;
126		/* ... */
127	};
128
129	codec: codec@12600000 {
130		memory-region = <&multimedia_reserved>;
131		/* ... */
132	};
133};
134