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authorFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>2010-03-10 15:23:31 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:42 -0800
commit0acedc124aca35f5cce9d4ee288dc372bf517e09 (patch)
tree699113a95be38de29457d0cc71139d9c82efba3e /Documentation
parentf41b177157718abe9a93868bb76e47d4a6f3681d (diff)
downloadlinux-0acedc124aca35f5cce9d4ee288dc372bf517e09.tar.gz
dma-mapping.h: add the dma_unmap state API
Adds the following macros:

DECLARE_DMA_UNMAP_ADDR(ADDR_NAME)
DECLARE_DMA_UNMAP_LEN(LEN_NAME)
dma_unmap_addr(PTR, ADDR_NAME)
dma_unmap_addr_set(PTR, ADDR_NAME, VAL)
dma_unmap_len(PTR, LEN_NAME)
dma_unmap_len_set(PTR, LEN_NAME, VAL)

The API corresponds to the pci_unmap state API.  We'll move to this new
generic API from the PCI specific API in the long term.  As
include/asm-generic/pci-dma-compat.h does, the pci_unmap API simply calls
the new generic API for some time.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DMA-API.txt58
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index 364a6cb444a5..29a48fbae779 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -472,6 +472,64 @@ void whizco_dma_map_sg_attrs(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_addr,
 	....
 
 
+Part Ie - Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption
+--------------------------------
+
+On some platforms, dma_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop.
+Therefore, keeping track of the mapping address and length is a waste
+of space. Instead of filling your drivers up with ifdefs and the like
+to "work around" this (which would defeat the whole purpose of a
+portable API) the following facilities are provided.
+
+Actually, instead of describing the macros one by one, we'll
+transform some example code.
+
+1) Use DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_{ADDR,LEN} in state saving structures.
+   Example, before:
+
+	struct ring_state {
+		struct sk_buff *skb;
+		dma_addr_t mapping;
+		__u32 len;
+	};
+
+   after:
+
+	struct ring_state {
+		struct sk_buff *skb;
+		DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_ADDR(mapping);
+		DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_LEN(len);
+	};
+
+2) Use dma_unmap_{addr,len}_set to set these values.
+   Example, before:
+
+	ringp->mapping = FOO;
+	ringp->len = BAR;
+
+   after:
+
+	dma_unmap_addr_set(ringp, mapping, FOO);
+	dma_unmap_len_set(ringp, len, BAR);
+
+3) Use dma_unmap_{addr,len} to access these values.
+   Example, before:
+
+	dma_unmap_single(dev, ringp->mapping, ringp->len,
+			 DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+
+   after:
+
+	dma_unmap_single(dev,
+			 dma_unmap_addr(ringp, mapping),
+			 dma_unmap_len(ringp, len),
+			 DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
+
+It really should be self-explanatory.  We treat the ADDR and LEN
+separately, because it is possible for an implementation to only
+need the address in order to perform the unmap operation.
+
+
 Part II - Advanced dma_ usage
 -----------------------------