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| author | Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com> | 2015-09-09 00:02:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-09-09 00:35:28 +0200 |
| commit | ad82362b2defd4adad87d8538617b2f51a4bf9c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d6f1b7736e52009d624011a149f6f36afd709ec /Documentation | |
| parent | mm: add support for __GFP_ZERO flag to dma_pool_alloc() (diff) | |
| download | linux-ad82362b2defd4adad87d8538617b2f51a4bf9c3.tar.xz linux-ad82362b2defd4adad87d8538617b2f51a4bf9c3.zip | |
mm: add dma_pool_zalloc() call to DMA API
Add a wrapper function for dma_pool_alloc() to get zeroed memory.
Signed-off-by: Sean O. Stalley <sean.stalley@intel.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@lip6.fr>
Cc: Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@imag.fr>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 7eba542eff7c..edccacd4f048 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ crossing restrictions, pass 0 for alloc; passing 4096 says memory allocated from this pool must not cross 4KByte boundaries. + void *dma_pool_zalloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t mem_flags, + dma_addr_t *handle) + +Wraps dma_pool_alloc() and also zeroes the returned memory if the +allocation attempt succeeded. + + void *dma_pool_alloc(struct dma_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags, dma_addr_t *dma_handle); |