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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DMA-API.txt')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 4f1cdc5febd..52088408668 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ To get the dma_ API, you must #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>. This provides dma_addr_t and the interfaces described below. A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform. It -can be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A cpu cannot +can be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target. A CPU cannot reference a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between its physical address space and the bus address space. @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ size and alignment requirements specified at creation time. Pass GFP_ATOMIC to prevent blocking, or if it's permitted (not in_interrupt, not holding SMP locks), pass GFP_KERNEL to allow blocking. Like dma_alloc_coherent(), this returns two values: an -address usable by the cpu, and the DMA address usable by the pool's +address usable by the CPU, and the DMA address usable by the pool's device. @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ device. dma_addr_t addr); This puts memory back into the pool. The pool is what was passed to -dma_pool_alloc(); the cpu (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what +dma_pool_alloc(); the CPU (vaddr) and DMA addresses are what were returned when that routine allocated the memory being freed. @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems, enum dma_data_direction direction) -Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the cpu +Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU and device. With the sync_sg API, all the parameters must be the same as those passed into the single mapping API. With the sync_single API, you can use dma_handle and size parameters that aren't identical to @@ -504,8 +504,8 @@ dma_declare_coherent_memory(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t phys_addr, Declare region of memory to be handed out by dma_alloc_coherent() when it's asked for coherent memory for this device. -phys_addr is the cpu physical address to which the memory is currently -assigned (this will be ioremapped so the cpu can access the region). +phys_addr is the CPU physical address to which the memory is currently +assigned (this will be ioremapped so the CPU can access the region). device_addr is the bus address the device needs to be programmed with to actually address this memory (this will be handed out as the |