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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst index 3b3abbbb4b9a..ea0413276ddb 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst @@ -516,48 +516,56 @@ routines, e.g.::: } -Part II - Advanced dma usage ----------------------------- +Part II - Non-coherent DMA allocations +-------------------------------------- -Warning: These pieces of the DMA API should not be used in the -majority of cases, since they cater for unlikely corner cases that -don't belong in usual drivers. +These APIs allow to allocate pages in the kernel direct mapping that are +guaranteed to be DMA addressable. This means that unlike dma_alloc_coherent, +virt_to_page can be called on the resulting address, and the resulting +struct page can be used for everything a struct page is suitable for. -If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a -processor and an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the -API at all. +If you don't understand how cache line coherency works between a processor and +an I/O device, you should not be using this part of the API. :: void * - dma_alloc_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma_handle, - gfp_t flag, unsigned long attrs) + dma_alloc_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, + dma_addr_t *dma_handle, enum dma_data_direction dir, + gfp_t gfp) -Identical to dma_alloc_coherent() except that when the -DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flags is passed in the attrs argument, the -platform will choose to return either consistent or non-consistent memory -as it sees fit. By using this API, you are guaranteeing to the platform -that you have all the correct and necessary sync points for this memory -in the driver should it choose to return non-consistent memory. +This routine allocates a region of <size> bytes of consistent memory. It +returns a pointer to the allocated region (in the processor's virtual address +space) or NULL if the allocation failed. The returned memory may or may not +be in the kernels direct mapping. Drivers must not call virt_to_page on +the returned memory region. -Note: where the platform can return consistent memory, it will -guarantee that the sync points become nops. +It also returns a <dma_handle> which may be cast to an unsigned integer the +same width as the bus and given to the device as the DMA address base of +the region. + +The dir parameter specified if data is read and/or written by the device, +see dma_map_single() for details. + +The gfp parameter allows the caller to specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see +kmalloc()) for the allocation, but rejects flags used to specify a memory +zone such as GFP_DMA or GFP_HIGHMEM. -Warning: Handling non-consistent memory is a real pain. You should -only use this API if you positively know your driver will be -required to work on one of the rare (usually non-PCI) architectures -that simply cannot make consistent memory. +Before giving the memory to the device, dma_sync_single_for_device() needs +to be called, and before reading memory written by the device, +dma_sync_single_for_cpu(), just like for streaming DMA mappings that are +reused. :: void - dma_free_attrs(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, - dma_addr_t dma_handle, unsigned long attrs) + dma_free_noncoherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, + dma_addr_t dma_handle, enum dma_data_direction dir) -Free memory allocated by the dma_alloc_attrs(). All common -parameters must be identical to those otherwise passed to dma_free_coherent, -and the attrs argument must be identical to the attrs passed to -dma_alloc_attrs(). +Free a region of memory previously allocated using dma_alloc_noncoherent(). +dev, size and dma_handle and dir must all be the same as those passed into +dma_alloc_noncoherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by +the dma_alloc_noncoherent(). :: @@ -575,41 +583,6 @@ memory or doing partial flushes. into the width returned by this call. It will also always be a power of two for easy alignment. -:: - - void - dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size, - enum dma_data_direction direction) - -Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by dma_alloc_attrs() with -the DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT flag starting at virtual address vaddr and -continuing on for size. Again, you *must* observe the cache line -boundaries when doing this. - -:: - - int - dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, - dma_addr_t device_addr, size_t size); - -Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when -it's asked for coherent memory for this device. - -phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently -assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region). - -device_addr is the DMA address the device needs to be programmed -with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the -dma_addr_t in dma_alloc_coherent()). - -size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE). - -As a simplification for the platforms, only *one* such region of -memory may be declared per device. - -For reasons of efficiency, most platforms choose to track the declared -region only at the granularity of a page. For smaller allocations, -you should use the dma_pool() API. Part III - Debug drivers use of the DMA-API ------------------------------------------- |