include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent()

Lots of driver code does a dma_alloc_coherent() and then zeroes out the
memory with a memset.  Make it easy for them.

Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index fe2326906610..66bd97a95f10 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ specify the GFP_ flags (see kmalloc) for the allocation (the
 implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of
 the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
 
+void *
+dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+                             dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+
+Wraps dma_alloc_coherent() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
+allocation attempt succeeded.
+
 void
 dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
                            dma_addr_t dma_handle)