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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. |