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authorXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>2013-08-30 17:39:28 +0800
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-10-14 15:50:53 +0200
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doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
Fix some typos in Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt. Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ all pending DMA writes to complete, and thus provides a mechanism to
strictly order DMA from a device across all intervening busses and
bridges. This barrier is not specific to a particular type of
interconnect, it applies to the system as a whole, and so its
-implementation must account for the idiosyncracies of the system all
+implementation must account for the idiosyncrasies of the system all
the way from the DMA device to memory.
As an example of a situation where DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would be
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ such mapping is non-trivial task and consumes very limited resources
Buffers allocated with this attribute can be only passed to user space
by calling dma_mmap_attrs(). By using this API, you are guaranteeing
that you won't dereference the pointer returned by dma_alloc_attr(). You
-can threat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and
+can treat it as a cookie that must be passed to dma_mmap_attrs() and
dma_free_attrs(). Make sure that both of these also get this attribute
set on each call.
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ to 'device' domain, what synchronizes CPU caches for the given region
(usually it means that the cache has been flushed or invalidated
depending on the dma direction). However, next calls to
dma_map_{single,page,sg}() for other devices will perform exactly the
-same sychronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache sychronization
+same synchronization operation on the CPU cache. CPU cache synchronization
might be a time consuming operation, especially if the buffers are
large, so it is highly recommended to avoid it if possible.
DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC allows platform code to skip synchronization of