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authorMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2011-12-23 09:30:47 +0100
committerMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>2012-03-28 16:36:43 +0200
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common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be buffered to improve performance. It will be used by the replacement for ARM/ARV32 specific dma_alloc_writecombine() function. Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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@@ -31,3 +31,13 @@ may be weakly ordered, that is that reads and writes may pass each other.
Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING,
those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
behavior.
+
+DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
+----------------------
+
+DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
+buffered to improve performance.
+
+Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
+those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
+behavior.