aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/include/linux/types.h
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>2015-07-22 08:17:15 -0700
committerKevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>2015-07-22 08:17:15 -0700
commit2447e09699cca5db52f86182f163f3a25d1089ab (patch)
treee16730dba489e5ea0f16737597525724daa5c770 /include/linux/types.h
parent5a277b6839c4ef6c6ccacff49b64f302598264bf (diff)
parentc8bde72f9af412de57f0ceae218d648640118b0b (diff)
Merge branch 'linux-4.1.y' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.1lsk-v4.1-15.07
* 'linux-4.1.y' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable: (126 commits) Linux 4.1.3 Input: pixcir_i2c_ts - fix receive error of/pci: Fix pci_address_to_pio() conversion of CPU address to I/O port PCI: pciehp: Wait for hotplug command completion where necessary PCI: Add pci_bus_addr_t PCI: Propagate the "ignore hotplug" setting to parent mtd: dc21285: use raw spinlock functions for nw_gpio_lock mtd: fix: avoid race condition when accessing mtd->usecount leds / PM: fix hibernation on arm when gpio-led used with CPU led trigger video: mxsfb: Make sure axi clock is enabled when accessing registers genirq: devres: Fix testing return value of request_any_context_irq() IB/srp: Fix reconnection failure handling IB/srp: Fix connection state tracking IB/srp: Fix a connection setup race IB/srp: Remove an extraneous scsi_host_put() from an error path scsi_transport_srp: Fix a race condition scsi_transport_srp: Introduce srp_wait_for_queuecommand() spi: pl022: Specify 'num-cs' property as required in devicetree binding spi: orion: Fix maximum baud rates for Armada 370/XP spi: fix race freeing dummy_tx/rx before it is unmapped ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/types.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/types.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 59698be03490..8715287c3b1f 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -139,12 +139,20 @@ typedef unsigned long blkcnt_t;
*/
#define pgoff_t unsigned long
-/* A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform */
+/*
+ * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA address, i.e., any address returned
+ * by the DMA API.
+ *
+ * If the DMA API only uses 32-bit addresses, dma_addr_t need only be 32
+ * bits wide. Bus addresses, e.g., PCI BARs, may be wider than 32 bits,
+ * but drivers do memory-mapped I/O to ioremapped kernel virtual addresses,
+ * so they don't care about the size of the actual bus addresses.
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
typedef u64 dma_addr_t;
#else
typedef u32 dma_addr_t;
-#endif /* dma_addr_t */
+#endif
typedef unsigned __bitwise__ gfp_t;
typedef unsigned __bitwise__ fmode_t;