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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-06-29 15:03:56 +0200
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2020-06-30 15:44:03 +0200
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dma-mapping: Add a new dma_need_sync API
Add a new API to check if calls to dma_sync_single_for_{device,cpu} are required for a given DMA streaming mapping. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200629130359.2690853-2-hch@lst.de
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@@ -206,6 +206,14 @@ others should not be larger than the returned value.
::
+ bool
+ dma_need_sync(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr);
+
+Returns %true if dma_sync_single_for_{device,cpu} calls are required to
+transfer memory ownership. Returns %false if those calls can be skipped.
+
+::
+
unsigned long
dma_get_merge_boundary(struct device *dev);