From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] docs: dma-api: remove remnants of PCI DMA API
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:46:08 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aFymYNdHSApXXSzy@archie.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250624133923.1140421-4-ptesarik@suse.com>
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 03:39:18PM +0200, Petr Tesarik wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
> index c0a2cc7d0b95..3e89e3b0ecfd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
> @@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ minimum allocation length may be as big as a page, so you should
> consolidate your requests for coherent memory as much as possible.
> The simplest way to do that is to use the dma_pool calls (see below).
>
> -The flag parameter (dma_alloc_coherent() only) allows the caller to
> -specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see kmalloc()) for the allocation (the
> -implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of
> -the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
> +The flag parameter allows the caller to specify the ``GFP_`` flags (see
> +kmalloc()) for the allocation (the implementation may ignore flags that affect
> +the location of the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
>
> ::
>
> @@ -64,13 +63,12 @@ the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
> dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
> dma_addr_t dma_handle)
>
> -Free a region of coherent memory you previously allocated. dev,
> -size and dma_handle must all be the same as those passed into
> -dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must be the virtual address returned by
> -the dma_alloc_coherent().
> +Free a previously allocated region of coherent memory. dev, size and dma_handle
> +must all be the same as those passed into dma_alloc_coherent(). cpu_addr must
> +be the virtual address returned by dma_alloc_coherent().
>
> -Note that unlike their sibling allocation calls, these routines
> -may only be called with IRQs enabled.
> +Note that unlike the sibling allocation call, this routine may only be called
> +with IRQs enabled.
>
>
> Part Ib - Using small DMA-coherent buffers
> @@ -246,9 +244,7 @@ Part Id - Streaming DMA mappings
> Maps a piece of processor virtual memory so it can be accessed by the
> device and returns the DMA address of the memory.
>
> -The direction for both APIs may be converted freely by casting.
> -However the DMA API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its
> -direction:
> +The DMA API uses a strongly typed enumerator for its direction:
>
> ======================= =============================================
> DMA_NONE no direction (used for debugging)
> @@ -325,8 +321,7 @@ DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction isn't known
> enum dma_data_direction direction)
>
> Unmaps the region previously mapped. All the parameters passed in
> -must be identical to those passed in (and returned) by the mapping
> -API.
> +must be identical to those passed to (and returned by) dma_map_single().
>
> ::
>
LGTM, thanks!
Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-26 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-24 13:39 [PATCH 0/8] update DMA API documentation Petr Tesarik
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] docs: dma-api: use "DMA API" consistently throughout the document Petr Tesarik
2025-06-25 2:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 4:51 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 7:21 ` Marek Szyprowski
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] docs: dma-api: remove remnants of PCI DMA API Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 1:46 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] docs: dma-api: add a kernel-doc comment for dma_pool_zalloc() Petr Tesarik
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] docs: dma-api: remove duplicate description of the DMA pool API Petr Tesarik
2025-06-25 2:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-06-25 6:41 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] docs: dma-api: clarify DMA addressing limitations Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 1:47 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] docs: dma-api: update streaming DMA API physical address constraints Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 1:49 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-06-26 5:06 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 7:09 ` Marek Szyprowski
2025-06-26 8:25 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 9:58 ` Robin Murphy
2025-06-26 13:48 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 16:45 ` Robin Murphy
2025-06-26 19:40 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-27 11:07 ` Robin Murphy
2025-06-27 11:32 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-27 12:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-27 13:02 ` Petr Tesarik
2025-06-27 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-24 13:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] docs: dma-api: clean up documentation of dma_map_sg() Petr Tesarik
2025-06-26 1:50 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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