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| author | Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> | 2018-04-09 18:59:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2018-04-23 14:44:17 +0200 |
| commit | 41d0bbc749471522714efd0649b7e033fefcbfb4 (patch) | |
| tree | f7a699753b6d55048306fea72b6c84af0628cbe6 /drivers/base | |
| parent | 504a918e6714b551b7b39940dbab32610fafa1fe (diff) | |
| download | linux-41d0bbc749471522714efd0649b7e033fefcbfb4.tar.bz2 | |
dma-coherent: clarify dma_mmap_from_dev_coherent documentation
The use of "correctly mapped" here is misleading, since it can give the
wrong expectation in the case that the memory *should* have been mapped
from the per-device pool, but doing so failed for other reasons.
Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/dma-coherent.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c index 1e6396bb807b..597d40893862 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c +++ b/drivers/base/dma-coherent.c @@ -312,8 +312,9 @@ static int __dma_mmap_from_coherent(struct dma_coherent_mem *mem, * This checks whether the memory was allocated from the per-device * coherent memory pool and if so, maps that memory to the provided vma. * - * Returns 1 if we correctly mapped the memory, or 0 if the caller should - * proceed with mapping memory from generic pools. + * Returns 1 if @vaddr belongs to the device coherent pool and the caller + * should return @ret, or 0 if they should proceed with mapping memory from + * generic areas. */ int dma_mmap_from_dev_coherent(struct device *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *vaddr, size_t size, int *ret) |