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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 0543162..8621a06 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ To get this part of the dma_ API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h> Many drivers need lots of small dma-coherent memory regions for DMA descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work -much like a kmem_cache_t, except that they use the dma-coherent allocator +much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the dma-coherent allocator not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N byte boundaries. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The pool create() routines initialize a pool of dma-coherent buffers for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which can sleep. -The "name" is for diagnostics (like a kmem_cache_t name); dev and size +The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary |
