无法在 Petalinux2020.2 上预留 memory？

Question

I'm building a project using petalinux2020.2 and an RFSOC, zcu111 board, for my application I need to reserve a section of memory from petalinux to use with DMA, implemented on the programmable logic of the FPGA. I tried following this tutorial , but I get an error at boot time.

Which terminates with a kernel panic, shown here: I've tried to modify Memory Size by using petalinux-config command, setting the Memory Size to 0x70000000 but it did not help.

The entry for the device tree is shown here:

/include/ "system-conf.dtsi"
/{
    reserved-memory {
        #address-cells = <2>;
        #size-cells = <2>;
        ranges;
 
        reserved: buffer@0 {
            no-map;
            reg = <0x0 0x70000000 0x0 0x10000000>;
        };
    };
    reserved-driver@0 {
        compatible = "xlnx,reserved-memory";
        memory-region = <&reserved>;
    };
};

How can I make this work?

Answer 1

I'm running PetaLinux 2018.1 on a Zynq-7020 board and can successfully reserve memory for my DMA operations. While not your exact set up it should be similar enough. You'll need to adjust the memory addresses to suit your system.

I'm using the DMA API "shared-dma-pool" property. That way my device driver will use my reserved space instead of the default CMA pool.

Also, note that I had problems reserving the memory until I added the vmalloc=512M statement to the bootargs. Although I was only reserving 256MB for DMA, I needed to vmalloc a larger value (double in my case) to get things to work.

My device tree entry:

/include/ "system-conf.dtsi"
/ {
    chosen {
    bootargs = "console=ttyPS0,115200 earlyprintk vmalloc=512M";
    stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
    };

reserved-memory {
        #address-cells = <1>;
        #size-cells = <1>;
        ranges;
 
            dma_reserved: buffer@30000000 {
        compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
            no-map;
        reg = <0x30000000 0x10000000>;
            };
    };

    //Required properties: 
    // - dmas: a list of <[DMA device phandle] [Channel ID]> pairs, 
    //         where Channel ID is (if both channels are enabled):
    //      '0' for write/tx channel
    //      '1' for read/rx channel 
    //     If only one channel is enabled, either tx or rx: 
    //      Channel ID is '0'. 
    // - dma-names: a list of DMA channel names, one per "dmas" entry 
    dma_proxy@0 {
        compatible ="xlnx,dma_proxy";
        dmas = <&axi_dma_0 0;
        dma-names = "dma1";
    memory-region = <&dma_reserved>;
    };
}

Console showing reserved memory: