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dma-coherent: add documentation to new interfaces
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Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dmitry Baryshkov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jul 20, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -92,6 +92,21 @@ void *dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied(struct device *dev,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_mark_declared_memory_occupied);

/**
* Try to allocate memory from the per-device coherent area.
*
* @dev: device from which we allocate memory
* @size: size of requested memory area
* @dma_handle: This will be filled with the correct dma handle
* @ret: This pointer will be filled with the virtual address
* to allocated area.
*
* This function should be only called from per-arch %dma_alloc_coherent()
* to support allocation from per-device coherent memory pools.
*
* Returns 0 if dma_alloc_coherent should continue with allocating from
* generic memory areas, or !0 if dma_alloc_coherent should return %ret.
*/
int dma_alloc_from_coherent(struct device *dev, ssize_t size,
dma_addr_t *dma_handle, void **ret)
{
Expand All @@ -111,6 +126,19 @@ int dma_alloc_from_coherent(struct device *dev, ssize_t size,
return (mem != NULL);
}

/**
* Try to free the memory allocated from per-device coherent memory pool.
* @dev: device from which the memory was allocated
* @order: the order of pages allocated
* @vaddr: virtual address of allocated pages
*
* This checks whether the memory was allocated from the per-device
* coherent memory pool and if so, releases that memory.
*
* Returns 1 if we correctly released the memory, or 0 if
* %dma_release_coherent() should proceed with releasing memory from
* generic pools.
*/
int dma_release_from_coherent(struct device *dev, int order, void *vaddr)
{
struct dma_coherent_mem *mem = dev ? dev->dma_mem : NULL;
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