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| author |   Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2015-07-07 12:35:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2015-07-07 12:35:33 +0100 |
| commit | 06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741 (patch) | |
| tree | 80f1987d4970f8079681f8be0c135cafc8d6329a /Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt | |
| parent | ARM: fix lockdep unannotated irqs-off warning (diff) | |
| parent | ARM: avoid unwanted GCC memset()/memcpy() optimisations for IO variants (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741.tar.xz linux-dev-06be5eefe1192eb8ce8d07497f67595b6bfe9741.zip | |
Merge branches 'fixes' and 'ioremap' into for-linus
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diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt index 05d2280190f1..ca67b0f04c6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt +++ b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt @@ -345,11 +345,12 @@ where to put them) that abstracts it away. * DMA_CTRL_ACK - - Undocumented feature - - No one really has an idea of what it's about, besides being - related to reusing the DMA transaction descriptors or having - additional transactions added to it in the async-tx API - - Useless in the case of the slave API + - If set, the transfer can be reused after being completed. + - There is a guarantee the transfer won't be freed until it is acked + by async_tx_ack(). + - As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the dma_map_sg() and + dma_unmap_sg() in between 2 transfers, because the DMA'd data wasn't used, + it can resubmit the transfer right after its completion. General Design Notes -------------------- |