Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:27:32 +0100 | From | Marek Szyprowski <> | Subject | [PATCH 13/14] common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute |
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DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be buffered to improve performance. It will be used by the replacement for ARM/ARV32 specific dma_alloc_writecombine() function.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> --- Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 10 ++++++++++ include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index b768cc0..811a5d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -31,3 +31,13 @@ may be weakly ordered, that is that reads and writes may pass each other. Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING, those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default behavior. + +DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE +---------------------- + +DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be +buffered to improve performance. + +Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE, +those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default +behavior. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h index 71ad34e..ada61e1 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ enum dma_attr { DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER, DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING, + DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE, DMA_ATTR_MAX, }; -- 1.7.1.569.g6f426
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