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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-attrs.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index b768cc0e402..811a5d458da 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -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. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h index 71ad34eca6e..ada61e1abf2 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-attrs.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-attrs.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ enum dma_attr { DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER, DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING, + DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE, DMA_ATTR_MAX, }; |