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authorRobert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>2015-05-27 00:06:34 +0300
committerVinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>2015-06-17 19:46:15 +0300
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Documentation: dmaengine: document DMA_CTRL_ACK
Add documentation about acking the transfers, and their reusability. Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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@@ -345,11 +345,12 @@ where to put them)
that abstracts it away.
* DMA_CTRL_ACK
- - Undocumented feature
- - No one really has an idea of what it's about, besides being
- related to reusing the DMA transaction descriptors or having
- additional transactions added to it in the async-tx API
- - Useless in the case of the slave API
+ - If set, the transfer can be reused after being completed.
+ - There is a guarantee the transfer won't be freed until it is acked
+ by async_tx_ack().
+ - As a consequence, if a device driver wants to skip the dma_map_sg() and
+ dma_unmap_sg() in between 2 transfers, because the DMA'd data wasn't used,
+ it can resubmit the transfer right after its completion.
General Design Notes
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