Merge branches 'regmap-linus' and 'regmap-interface' into regmap-next
[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 3c4e071..a0b6250 100644 (file)
@@ -613,13 +613,13 @@ to use the dma_sync_*() interfaces.
                                pass_to_upper_layers(cp->rx_buf);
                                make_and_setup_new_rx_buf(cp);
                        } else {
-                               /* Just sync the buffer and give it back
-                                * to the card.
+                               /* CPU should not write to
+                                * DMA_FROM_DEVICE-mapped area,
+                                * so dma_sync_single_for_device() is
+                                * not needed here. It would be required
+                                * for DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL mapping if
+                                * the memory was modified.
                                 */
-                               dma_sync_single_for_device(&cp->dev,
-                                                          cp->rx_dma,
-                                                          cp->rx_len,
-                                                          DMA_FROM_DEVICE);
                                give_rx_buf_to_card(cp);
                        }
                }
@@ -738,17 +738,17 @@ to "Closing".
    CONFIG_NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH if the architecture supports IOMMUs
    (including software IOMMU).
 
-2) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
+2) ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN
 
    Architectures must ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is
    DMA-safe. Drivers and subsystems depend on it. If an architecture
    isn't fully DMA-coherent (i.e. hardware doesn't ensure that data in
    the CPU cache is identical to data in main memory),
-   ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
+   ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN must be set so that the memory allocator
    makes sure that kmalloc'ed buffer doesn't share a cache line with
    the others. See arch/arm/include/asm/cache.h as an example.
 
-   Note that ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
+   Note that ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN is about DMA memory alignment
    constraints. You don't need to worry about the architecture data
    alignment constraints (e.g. the alignment constraints about 64-bit
    objects).