+ Handling Errors
+
+DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
+failure can be determined by:
+
+- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
+
+- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
+ by using dma_mapping_error():
+
+ dma_addr_t dma_handle;
+
+ dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
+ if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
+ /*
+ * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
+ * delay and try again later or
+ * reset driver.
+ */
+ }
+
+Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
+and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
+(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
+the failure case.
+
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+