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authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>2010-03-10 15:23:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:40 -0800
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DMA-API.txt: add dma_sync_single/sg API description
This adds the description of the following eight function: dma_sync_single_for_cpu pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu dma_sync_single_for_device pci_dma_sync_single_for_device dma_sync_sg_for_cpu pci_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu dma_sync_sg_for_device pci_dma_sync_sg_for_device It was unclear that the API permits a partial sync (some network drivers already do though). I made it clear that the sync_single API can do a partial sync but the sync_sg API can't. We could do a partial sync with the sync_sg API too, however, it's difficult for driver writers to correctly use the sync_sg API for a partial sync since the scatterlists passed in to the mapping API can't be modified. It's unlikely that driver writers want to do a partial sync with the sync_sg API (because the sync_sg API are usually used for block drivers). So I think that it's better to forbid a partial sync with the sync_sg API. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -364,6 +364,48 @@ API.
Note: <nents> must be the number you passed in, *not* the number of
physical entries returned.
+void
+dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+void
+pci_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct pci_dev *hwdev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
+ size_t size, int direction)
+void
+dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+void
+pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(struct pci_dev *hwdev, dma_addr_t dma_handle,
+ size_t size, int direction)
+void
+dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+void
+pci_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+ int nelems, int direction)
+void
+dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
+ enum dma_data_direction direction)
+void
+pci_dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg,
+ int nelems, int direction)
+
+Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the cpu
+and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same
+as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API,
+you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to
+those passed into the single mapping API to do a partial sync.
+
+Notes: You must do this:
+
+- Before reading values that have been written by DMA from the device
+ (use the DMA_FROM_DEVICE direction)
+- After writing values that will be written to the device using DMA
+ (use the DMA_TO_DEVICE) direction
+- before *and* after handing memory to the device if the memory is
+ DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
+
+See also dma_map_single().
+
dma_addr_t
dma_map_single_attrs(struct device *dev, void *cpu_addr, size_t size,
enum dma_data_direction dir,