The CMA debugfs interface is useful to retrieve basic information out of the
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different CMA areas and to test allocation/release in each of the areas.
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Each CMA zone represents a directory under <debugfs>/cma/, indexed by the
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kernel's CMA index. So the first CMA zone would be:
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<debugfs>/cma/cma-0
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The structure of the files created under that directory is as follows:
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- [RO] base_pfn: The base PFN (Page Frame Number) of the zone.
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- [RO] count: Amount of memory in the CMA area.
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- [RO] order_per_bit: Order of pages represented by one bit.
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- [RO] bitmap: The bitmap of page states in the zone.
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- [WO] alloc: Allocate N pages from that CMA area. For example:
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echo 5 > <debugfs>/cma/cma-2/alloc
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would try to allocate 5 pages from the cma-2 area.
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- [WO] free: Free N pages from that CMA area, similar to the above.
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