Re: [PATCH] Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: update API descriptions

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I'm glad that my patch is useful.
Thank you.


2014-05-21 오전 8:19, Bjorn Helgaas 쓴 글:
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:45:52PM +0900, gioh.kim wrote:
From: "gioh.kim" <gioh.kim@xxxxxxx>

update descriptions for dma_pool_create and dma_pool_alloc

Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@xxxxxxx>

I applied this to my "dma-api" branch for v3.16, thanks!

(I fixed up the From: line as you did for the other patch.)

---
  Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt |    8 ++++----
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 5e98303..e4251a3 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -373,13 +373,13 @@ Create a dma_pool like this:

  	struct dma_pool *pool;

-	pool = dma_pool_create(name, dev, size, align, alloc);
+	pool = dma_pool_create(name, dev, size, align, boundary);

  The "name" is for diagnostics (like a kmem_cache name); dev and size
  are as above.  The device's hardware alignment requirement for this
  type of data is "align" (which is expressed in bytes, and must be a
  power of two).  If your device has no boundary crossing restrictions,
-pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated from this pool
+pass 0 for boundary; passing 4096 says memory allocated from this pool
  must not cross 4KByte boundaries (but at that time it may be better to
  go for dma_alloc_coherent directly instead).

@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ Allocate memory from a dma pool like this:

  	cpu_addr = dma_pool_alloc(pool, flags, &dma_handle);

-flags are SLAB_KERNEL if blocking is permitted (not in_interrupt nor
-holding SMP locks), SLAB_ATOMIC otherwise.  Like dma_alloc_coherent,
+flags are GFP_KERNEL if blocking is permitted (not in_interrupt nor
+holding SMP locks), GFP_ATOMIC otherwise.  Like dma_alloc_coherent,
  this returns two values, cpu_addr and dma_handle.

  Free memory that was allocated from a dma_pool like this:
--
1.7.9.5

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