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authorArthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>2008-04-29 04:00:31 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-29 11:06:11 -0400
commita75b0a2f68d3937f96ed39525e4750601483e3b4 (patch)
tree1a84f2ef16515880f00e2db9a931299f22a07071 /Documentation/DMA-API.txt
parent74bc7ceebfa1c84ddd3a843ebfb56df013bf7ef5 (diff)
dma: document dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces
Document the new dma_*map*_attrs() functions. [markn@au1.ibm.com: fix up for dma-add-dma_map_attrs-interfaces and update docs] Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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395 395
396See also dma_map_single(). 396See also dma_map_single().
397 397
398dma_addr_t
399dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
400 enum dma_data_direction dir,
401 struct dma_attrs *attrs)
402
403void
404dma_unmap_single_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
405 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
406 struct dma_attrs *attrs)
407
408int
409dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
410 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
411 struct dma_attrs *attrs)
412
413void
414dma_unmap_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sgl,
415 int nents, enum dma_data_direction dir,
416 struct dma_attrs *attrs)
417
418The four functions above are just like the counterpart functions
419without the _attrs suffixes, except that they pass an optional
420struct dma_attrs*.
421
422struct dma_attrs encapsulates a set of "dma attributes". For the
423definition of struct dma_attrs see linux/dma-attrs.h.
424
425The interpretation of dma attributes is architecture-specific, and
426each attribute should be documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt.
427
428If struct dma_attrs* is NULL, the semantics of each of these
429functions is identical to those of the corresponding function
430without the _attrs suffix. As a result dma_map_single_attrs()
431can generally replace dma_map_single(), etc.
432
433As an example of the use of the *_attrs functions, here's how
434you could pass an attribute DMA_ATTR_FOO when mapping memory
435for DMA:
436
437#include <linux/dma-attrs.h>
438/* DMA_ATTR_FOO should be defined in linux/dma-attrs.h and
439 * documented in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt */
440...
441
442 DEFINE_DMA_ATTRS(attrs);
443 dma_set_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, &attrs);
444 ....
445 n = dma_map_sg_attrs(dev, sg, nents, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &attr);
446 ....
447
448Architectures that care about DMA_ATTR_FOO would check for its
449presence in their implementations of the mapping and unmapping
450routines, e.g.:
451
452void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
453 size_t size, enum dma_data_direction dir,
454 struct dma_attrs *attrs)
455{
456 ....
457 int foo = dma_get_attr(DMA_ATTR_FOO, attrs);
458 ....
459 if (foo)
460 /* twizzle the frobnozzle */
461 ....
462
398 463
399Part II - Advanced dma_ usage 464Part II - Advanced dma_ usage
400----------------------------- 465-----------------------------