CMA: why DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS is not used in v4l2 or DRM cma helper

[ayaka]

Hello All

I am looking for the CMA allocator in current kernel, when I check the videobuf2-dma-contig.c and drm_gem_cma_helper.c, they just call dma_alloc_wc()/dma_alloc_attrs() without any flag that request a contiguous pages.
I could hardly find a driver use the flag DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS, what I need to do if I want to allocate a CMA and DMA capable buffer for a driver(not all the buffers, because it may have a iommu in a different direction) ?

And anything I could that limit a driver that only allocate the pages for the DMA in a address base(for example only the low 4G memory) ?


Sincerely 
ayaka
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