Now that URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP is no longer in use, this patch (as1376)
removes all references to it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
For more clearance what the functions actually do,
usb_buffer_alloc() is renamed to usb_alloc_coherent()
usb_buffer_free() is renamed to usb_free_coherent()
They should only be used in code which really needs DMA coherency.
All call sites have been changed accordingly, except for staging
drivers.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Move DMA-mapping.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
DMA-mapping.txt was supposed to be moved from Documentation/ to
Documentation/PCI/. The 00-INDEX files in those two directories
were updated, along with a few other text files, but the file
itself somehow escaped being moved, so move it and update more
text files and source files with its new location.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying. Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.
- Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators. There are
a few exceptions (like the HID driver).
- Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.
- Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
DMA" capability through a driver stack. This is easy, everything
already avoids highmem. But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
storage devices. (Patch, anyone?)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Alan Stern