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| author | Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> | 2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400 |
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| committer | Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com> | 2008-07-30 02:05:23 +0400 |
| commit | 9fec6060d9e48ed7db0dac0e16d0f0f0e615b7f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 74b41f31a08f6500ff3dfcf64ba21e2d9a8e87e5 /Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt | |
| parent | fece418418f51e92dd7e67e17c5e3fe5a28d3279 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' of /home/cbou/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/power/Kconfig
drivers/power/Makefile
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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 6d772f84b477..b768cc0e402b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -22,3 +22,12 @@ ready and available in memory. The DMA of the "completion indication" could race with data DMA. Mapping the memory used for completion indications with DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER would prevent the race. +DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING +---------------------- + +DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING specifies that reads and writes to the mapping +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. |
