common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute

DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
buffered to improve performance. It will be used by the replacement for
ARM/ARV32 specific dma_alloc_writecombine() function.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Marek Szyprowski 2011-12-23 09:30:47 +01:00
parent 9adc537452
commit 8a4134322b
2 changed files with 11 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -31,3 +31,13 @@ may be weakly ordered, that is that reads and writes may pass each other.
Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING,
those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
behavior.
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE
----------------------
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE specifies that writes to the mapping may be
buffered to improve performance.
Since it is optional for platforms to implement DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
those that do not will simply ignore the attribute and exhibit default
behavior.

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@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
enum dma_attr {
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER,
DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING,
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_COMBINE,
DMA_ATTR_MAX,
};