linux: configure aarch64 contiguous memory allocator via kernel config

As per the in-line comment, this is where distros should configure it.
Not via kernel command line parameters.

As found by looking at the implementation, while exploring the cause of
a bug on the Raspberry Pi 4, it was found that `cma=` on the command
line parameters will overwrite the values a device tree will have
configured for a given platform.

With this, the more recent 5.4 vendor kernel boots just fine on the
Raspberry Pi 4 using our common configuration.
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Samuel Dionne-Riel 2020-09-13 23:26:21 -04:00 committed by Milan
parent f9d5de05d2
commit 4e75a31e98
2 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions

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# The serial ports listed here are:
# - ttyS0: for Tegra (Jetson TX1)
# - ttyAMA0: for QEMU's -machine virt
# Also increase the amount of CMA to ensure the virtual console on the RPi3 works.
boot.kernelParams = ["cma=32M" "console=ttyS0,115200n8" "console=ttyAMA0,115200n8" "console=tty0"];
boot.kernelParams = ["console=ttyS0,115200n8" "console=ttyAMA0,115200n8" "console=tty0"];
boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
# Allows early (earlier) modesetting for the Raspberry Pi

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# See comments on https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/9b67ea9106102d882f53d62890468071900b9647
CRYPTO_AEGIS128_SIMD = whenAtLeast "5.4" no;
# Distros should configure the default as a kernel option.
# We previously defined it on the kernel command line as cma=
# The kernel command line will override a platform-specific configuration from its device tree.
# https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/856deb866d16e29bd65952e0289066f6078af773/kernel/dma/contiguous.c#L35-L44
CMA_SIZE_MBYTES = freeform "32";
};
};
in