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diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt index c3ab456422f3..bfd94e90af51 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt @@ -639,6 +639,36 @@ is planned to completely remove virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() as they are entirely deprecated. Some ports already do not provide these as it is impossible to correctly support them. + Handling Errors + +DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation +failure can be determined by: + +- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0 + +- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page + by using dma_mapping_error(): + + dma_addr_t dma_handle; + + dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction); + if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) { + /* + * reduce current DMA mapping usage, + * delay and try again later or + * reset driver. + */ + } + +Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer +and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook +(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in +the failure case. + +SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping +fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem +passes the command to the driver again later. + Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption On many platforms, dma_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop. @@ -710,36 +740,6 @@ to "Closing". 2) More to come... - Handling Errors - -DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation -failure can be determined by: - -- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0 - -- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page - by using dma_mapping_error(): - - dma_addr_t dma_handle; - - dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction); - if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) { - /* - * reduce current DMA mapping usage, - * delay and try again later or - * reset driver. - */ - } - -Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer -and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook -(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in -the failure case. - -SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping -fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem -passes the command to the driver again later. - Closing This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current |