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author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
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committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2013-03-19 09:47:30 +0100 |
commit | 0d4a42f6bd298e826620585e766a154ab460617a (patch) | |
tree | 406d8f7778691d858dbe3e48e4bbb10e99c0a58a /Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | |
parent | d62b4892f3d9f7dd2002e5309be10719d6805b0f (diff) | |
parent | a937536b868b8369b98967929045f1df54234323 (diff) |
Merge tag 'v3.9-rc3' into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge so that I can merge Imre Deak's coalesced sg entries fixes,
which depend upon the new for_each_sg_page introduce in
commit a321e91b6d73ed011ffceed384c40d2785cf723b
Author: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Date: Wed Feb 27 17:02:56 2013 -0800
lib/scatterlist: add simple page iterator
The merge itself is just two trivial conflicts:
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index 4a4fb295ceef..14129f149a75 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -488,9 +488,10 @@ will invoke the generic mapping error check interface. Doing so will ensure that the mapping code will work correctly on all dma implementations without any dependency on the specifics of the underlying implementation. Using the returned address without checking for errors could result in failures ranging -from panics to silent data corruption. Couple of example of incorrect ways to -check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma implementation -are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as well. +from panics to silent data corruption. A couple of examples of incorrect ways +to check for errors that make assumptions about the underlying dma +implementation are as follows and these are applicable to dma_map_page() as +well. Incorrect example 1: dma_addr_t dma_handle; @@ -751,7 +752,7 @@ Example 1: dma_unmap_single(dma_handle1); map_error_handling1: -Example 2: (if buffers are allocated a loop, unmap all mapped buffers when +Example 2: (if buffers are allocated in a loop, unmap all mapped buffers when mapping error is detected in the middle) dma_addr_t dma_addr; |