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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/dma/swiotlb.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst index 1887d92e8e92..17706dc91ec9 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst @@ -130,3 +130,11 @@ accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged subsystem that the buffer is fully accessible at the elevated privilege level (and ideally inaccessible or at least read-only at the lesser-privileged levels). + +DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE +------------------ + +This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected to +overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any of the +previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows bounce-buffering +implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h index dca2b1355bb1..6150d11a607e 100644 --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ #define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED (1UL << 9) /* + * This is a hint to the DMA-mapping subsystem that the device is expected + * to overwrite the entire mapped size, thus the caller does not require any + * of the previous buffer contents to be preserved. This allows + * bounce-buffering implementations to optimise DMA_FROM_DEVICE transfers. + */ +#define DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE (1UL << 10) + +/* * 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. It is specific to a * given device and there may be a translation between the CPU physical address diff --git a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c index 87c40517e822..aca0690550e2 100644 --- a/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c +++ b/kernel/dma/swiotlb.c @@ -579,7 +579,8 @@ phys_addr_t swiotlb_tbl_map_single(struct device *dev, phys_addr_t orig_addr, mem->slots[index + i].orig_addr = slot_addr(orig_addr, i); tlb_addr = slot_addr(mem->start, index) + offset; if (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC) && - (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)) + (!(attrs & DMA_ATTR_OVERWRITE) || dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE || + dir == DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)) swiotlb_bounce(dev, tlb_addr, mapping_size, DMA_TO_DEVICE); return tlb_addr; } |