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Slices are a mechanism for suballocating DMA mapped regions from the request buffer. Such regions can be used for indirect command data instead of creating new mappings with dma_alloc_coherent(). The advantage of using a slice is that the lifetime of the slice is bound to the request and will be automatically unmapped when the request is consumed. A single external region is also supported. This allows for regions that will not fit inside the spare request buffer space such that the same API can be used consistently even for larger mappings. Signed-off-by: Edwin Peer <edwin.peer@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.