From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [90.155.50.34]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83461220F48; Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751137066; cv=none; b=ufoGm2RSi3G78nD8gy2m93zjTU7mdL6bYLEt9NJAFZTxQv2hxVaFqmgY/kV7ChdSNZ/7zBnweKNNvE0mPLDLus6wkkB/hIs10ronFYBk9XstfI7Eb2uEFAVKn0gd94qPnDPvCDWEi4K58XDg3hSpVLsYx/hwPGsAzOFvO9qe0fU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1751137066; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZAl987RtnqAA6nEP255KwhOX71RKQ7rq7qAN9e/1jHE=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=l3sOmzkTYSTfqmmhNr2ivdc8xiTAOuCR5skWHT5Hdb12R+y8rMcXEcU6zVgrOe2z2hMHUK2c8gidiEjIdw/iRLmxCihNHHSy1TwPZYXuwW/Z0k/0WTVFrj68xCBD7VtNb71sOGc9f3TA1RA8KjmYCpDqsaFSA7y6HAlInAGYU/Y= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=YBkXNGxJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=90.155.50.34 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="YBkXNGxJ" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=casper.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type: In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:Sender :Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=WS0+TC72GZxX8qGZhl4eqr21pm5RLZYj9dJ7tqT9W+M=; b=YBkXNGxJjm/YF2TGbCKlg8iric DXQ+QW8+FIM1BEe6GEsM0QSRhlxQ08+vL6DKpKqDlTdTmiiW8P0gWSKOObXEk1rZH2fSrZroIxBYt ofosom1Z3W+0uGjkBAe14OjZE1MKqqi22quwSXZSUJ1MnmWMxOHv8Dxh5ArUve1AOzQC3CgYiemt9 QeZmcXfj7Z1rhrG27+j1a2r+dxFeqb83UNS+SCe2bqgxMTFPiCWP1Q/68881p1Vj9GKlZveSlL3+f 2C9Y9Qep21P3TVqQkllMF65q7JORSjbnrLvxQuoTHt0FwUZJTK9y9TISEK0F7SitH4peQVHN5TBfK BPYfLrPg==; Received: from [50.53.25.54] (helo=[192.168.254.17]) by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1uVak7-0000000H7ds-2BFC; Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:57:39 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:57:36 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent To: Petr Tesarik , Jonathan Corbet , Robin Murphy , Marek Szyprowski Cc: Andrew Morton , Keith Busch , Jens Axboe , Bagas Sanjaya , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , open list , "open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" , iommu@lists.linux.dev References: <20250627101015.1600042-1-ptesarik@suse.com> <20250627101015.1600042-3-ptesarik@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20250627101015.1600042-3-ptesarik@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 6/27/25 3:10 AM, Petr Tesarik wrote: > For consistency, always use the term "coherent" when talking about memory > that is not subject to CPU caching effects. The term "consistent" is a > relic of a long-removed PCI DMA API (pci_alloc_consistent() and > pci_free_consistent() functions). > > Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik Tested-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. > --- > Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst | 36 ++++++++++++------------ > Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst | 14 ++++----- > mm/dmapool.c | 6 ++-- > 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- ~Randy