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| author | Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2003-06-13 02:41:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> | 2003-06-13 02:41:21 -0700 |
| commit | 6843246fc55ec5f501ce271a8a6331b01ee0f434 (patch) | |
| tree | e2809d59ffde78f1f1cb673aa3d72b7d9507463d /Documentation | |
| parent | 6d10b0c3576f6013cae471d9a941a6ba0dd94b8a (diff) | |
[PATCH] USB: Use separate transport_flags bits for transfer_dma
Use separate transfer_flags bits for transfer_dma and setup_dma
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/dma.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt index fae537186570..62844aeba69c 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/dma.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/dma.txt @@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ OR: they can now be DMA-aware. manage dma mappings for existing dma-ready buffers (see below). - URBs have an additional "transfer_dma" field, as well as a transfer_flags - bit saying if it's valid. (Control requests also needed "setup_dma".) + bit saying if it's valid. (Control requests also have "setup_dma" and a + corresponding transfer_flags bit.) -- "usbcore" will map those DMA addresses, if a DMA-aware driver didn't do it - first and set URB_NO_DMA_MAP. HCDs don't manage dma mappings for urbs. +- "usbcore" will map those DMA addresses, if a DMA-aware driver didn't do + it first and set URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP or URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP. HCDs + don't manage dma mappings for URBs. - There's a new "generic DMA API", parts of which are usable by USB device drivers. Never use dma_set_mask() on any USB interface or device; that @@ -33,8 +35,9 @@ and effects like cache-trashing can impose subtle penalties. - When you're allocating a buffer for DMA purposes anyway, use the buffer primitives. Think of them as kmalloc and kfree that give you the right kind of addresses to store in urb->transfer_buffer and urb->transfer_dma, - while guaranteeing that hidden copies through DMA "bounce" buffers won't - slow things down. You'd also set URB_NO_DMA_MAP in urb->transfer_flags: + while guaranteeing that no hidden copies through DMA "bounce" buffers will + slow things down. You'd also set URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP in + urb->transfer_flags: void *usb_buffer_alloc (struct usb_device *dev, size_t size, int mem_flags, dma_addr_t *dma); @@ -42,10 +45,18 @@ and effects like cache-trashing can impose subtle penalties. void usb_buffer_free (struct usb_device *dev, size_t size, void *addr, dma_addr_t dma); + For control transfers you can use the buffer primitives or not for each + of the transfer buffer and setup buffer independently. Set the flag bits + URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP and URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP to indicate which + buffers you have prepared. For non-control transfers URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP + is ignored. + The memory buffer returned is "dma-coherent"; sometimes you might need to force a consistent memory access ordering by using memory barriers. It's not using a streaming DMA mapping, so it's good for small transfers on - systems where the I/O would otherwise tie up an IOMMU mapping. + systems where the I/O would otherwise tie up an IOMMU mapping. (See + Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt for definitions of "coherent" and "streaming" + DMA mappings.) Asking for 1/Nth of a page (as well as asking for N pages) is reasonably space-efficient. @@ -91,7 +102,8 @@ DMA address space of the device. These calls all work with initialized urbs: urb->dev, urb->pipe, urb->transfer_buffer, and urb->transfer_buffer_length must all be - valid when these calls are used: + valid when these calls are used (urb->setup_packet must be valid too + if urb is a control request): struct urb *usb_buffer_map (struct urb *urb); @@ -99,6 +111,6 @@ DMA address space of the device. void usb_buffer_unmap (struct urb *urb); - The calls manage urb->transfer_dma for you, and set URB_NO_DMA_MAP so that - usbcore won't map or unmap the buffer. - + The calls manage urb->transfer_dma for you, and set URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP + so that usbcore won't map or unmap the buffer. The same goes for + urb->setup_dma and URB_NO_SETUP_DMA_MAP for control requests. |
