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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index f50309081ac7..e59480db9ee0 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -91,3 +91,12 @@ transferred to 'device' domain. This attribute can be also used for dma_unmap_{single,page,sg} functions family to force buffer to stay in device domain after releasing a mapping for it. Use this attribute with care! + +DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS +------------------------- + +By default DMA-mapping subsystem is allowed to assemble the buffer +allocated by dma_alloc_attrs() function from individual pages if it can +be mapped as contiguous chunk into device dma address space. By +specifing this attribute the allocated buffer is forced to be contiguous +also in physical memory. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h index f83f793223ff..c8e1831d7572 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ enum dma_attr { DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT, DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING, DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC, + DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS, DMA_ATTR_MAX, }; |