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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt index 98bf7ac29aad..44c6bc496eee 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt @@ -143,3 +143,13 @@ So, this provides a way for drivers to avoid those error messages on calls where allocation failures are not a problem, and shouldn't bother the logs. NOTE: At the moment DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN is only implemented on PowerPC. + +DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED +------------------------------ + +Some advanced peripherals such as remote processors and GPUs perform +accesses to DMA buffers in both privileged "supervisor" and unprivileged +"user" modes. This attribute is used to indicate to the DMA-mapping +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). |