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| author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
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| committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-03-25 03:53:42 -0300 |
| commit | 03dd4cb26d967f9588437b0fc9cc0e8353322bb7 (patch) | |
| tree | fa581f6dc1c0596391690d1f67eceef3af8246dc /Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt | |
| parent | d4e493caf788ef44982e131ff9c786546904d934 (diff) | |
Linux-libre 4.5-gnu
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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt index 67d4ce4df..122b7f487 100644 --- a/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt +++ b/Documentation/dmaengine/provider.txt @@ -327,8 +327,24 @@ supported. * device_terminate_all - Aborts all the pending and ongoing transfers on the channel - - This command should operate synchronously on the channel, - terminating right away all the channels + - For aborted transfers the complete callback should not be called + - Can be called from atomic context or from within a complete + callback of a descriptor. Must not sleep. Drivers must be able + to handle this correctly. + - Termination may be asynchronous. The driver does not have to + wait until the currently active transfer has completely stopped. + See device_synchronize. + + * device_synchronize + - Must synchronize the termination of a channel to the current + context. + - Must make sure that memory for previously submitted + descriptors is no longer accessed by the DMA controller. + - Must make sure that all complete callbacks for previously + submitted descriptors have finished running and none are + scheduled to run. + - May sleep. + Misc notes (stuff that should be documented, but don't really know where to put them) |