For dma_alloc_coherent() you don't need writel/readl because
it's just a plain old void *. Linux tries very hard to make a
distinction between io memory (void __iomem *) and memory
(void *) so that drivers are portable to architectures that
don't have a way to access registers via pointer dereferences.
You can see http://lwn.net/Articles/102232/ and the Linus rant
http://lwn.net/Articles/102240/ here for more details behind
the motivation.
msm: kgsl: Allocate physical pages instead of using vmalloc
Replace vmalloc allocation with physical page allocation. For most
allocations we do not need a kernel virual address. vmalloc uses up
the kernel virtual address space. By replacing vmalloc with physical
page alloction and mapping that allocation to kernel space only
when it is required prevents the kgsl driver from using unnecessary
vmalloc virtual space.
kmalloc allocates physically contiguous memory and
may fail for larger allocations due to fragmentation.
The large allocations are caused by the fact that the
scatterlist structure is 24 bytes and the array size
is proportional to the number of pages being mapped.
Make the framework for reporting per-process memory statistics a little bit
more generic. This should make it easier to keep track of more external
memory sources as they are added.
Some hangs are fooling the postmortem dump code into
running off the end of a buffer. Fix this by making
its bounds check logic work better by reusing the
logic from kgsl_find_region().
