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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-14 17:07:33 +0300 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2017-03-14 17:07:33 +0300 |
| commit | b70366e5d31788650b2a5cec5cd13ea80ac7e44a (patch) | |
| tree | d972ffd190111d699200448494fda333d28b2486 /Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | |
| parent | f42e181935d5e5670c87d31ae48063a495bbacae (diff) | |
| parent | db6ccf23e8ba40fc2e8914ec9c0eb950df71d9fe (diff) | |
| download | linux-b70366e5d31788650b2a5cec5cd13ea80ac7e44a.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'doc-4.11-images' of git://git.lwn.net/linux into drm-misc-next
Pointer for Markus's image conversion work.
We need this so we can merge all the pretty drm graphs for 4.12.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 98bf7ac29aad..44c6bc496eee 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -143,3 +143,13 @@ So, this provides a way for drivers to avoid those error messages on calls where allocation failures are not a problem, and shouldn't bother the logs. NOTE: At the moment DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN is only implemented on PowerPC. + +DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED +------------------------------ + +Some advanced peripherals such as remote processors and GPUs perform +accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged +"user" modes. This attribute is used to indicate to the DMA-mapping +subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege +level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the +lesser-privileged levels). |