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common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute

DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
buffered to improve performance. It will be used by the replacement for
ARM/ARV32 specific dma_alloc_writecombine() function.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Marek Szyprowski 13 years ago
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      Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt
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      include/linux/dma-attrs.h

+ 10 - 0
Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt

@@ -31,3 +31,13 @@ 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.
+
+DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
+----------------------
+
+DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
+buffered to improve performance.
+
+Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
+those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
+behavior.

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/dma-attrs.h

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 enum dma_attr {
 	DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER,
 	DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING,
+	DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
 	DMA_ATTR_MAX,
 };