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author | Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> | 2008-07-18 17:03:34 +0400 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-22 04:39:36 +0400 |
commit | 1ed6af73440c5ec920884bb800685a8cab4ce847 (patch) | |
tree | 68a452bd8e9d07e9a28cef63ee3b72e0319635da /Documentation | |
parent | 79e25bac124a7d1d7bf966f06dd9398a1b5f3d20 (diff) | |
download | linux-1ed6af73440c5ec920884bb800685a8cab4ce847.tar.xz |
powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code
Introduce a new dma attriblue DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING to use weak ordering
on DMA mappings in the Cell processor. Add the code to the Cell's IOMMU
implementation to use this code.
Dynamic mappings can be weakly or strongly ordered on an individual basis
but the fixed mapping has to be either completely strong or completely weak.
This is currently decided by a kernel boot option (pass iommu_fixed=weak
for a weakly ordered fixed linear mapping, strongly ordered is the default).
Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 6d772f84b477..b768cc0e402b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -22,3 +22,12 @@ ready and available in memory. The DMA of the "completion indication" could race with data DMA. Mapping the memory used for completion indications with DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would prevent the race. +DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING +---------------------- + +DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING specifies that reads and writes to the mapping +may be weakly ordered, that is that reads and writes may pass each other. + +Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING, +those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default +behavior. |