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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-09-08 01:01:14 -0300 |
| commit | e5fd91f1ef340da553f7a79da9540c3db711c937 (patch) | |
| tree | b11842027dc6641da63f4bcc524f8678263304a3 /Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt | |
| parent | 2a9b0348e685a63d97486f6749622b61e9e3292f (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.2-gnu
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diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt index 05d228019..ca67b0f04 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 -------------------- |