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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 13:39:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-11-02 16:07:02 -0700
commit842fa69f3e0c9a178b294e7af7c07f4c9d9e7af2 (patch)
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parentsysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n (diff)
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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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 347fdc32177a..be86ae13893f 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_DMA_MAPPING_H
#define _LINUX_DMA_MAPPING_H
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/dma-attrs.h>
@@ -117,6 +118,15 @@ static inline int dma_set_seg_boundary(struct device *dev, unsigned long mask)
return -EIO;
}
+static inline void *dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+ dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+{
+ void *ret = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flag);
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, size);
+ return ret;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DMA
static inline int dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
{