linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same

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Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:41:09 +0300
From:	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
To:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, corbet@....net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	djkurtz@...omium.org, Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same

From: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@....fi>

The nents argument to the DMA API functions operating on scatterlists is
always the same. The documentation used different argument names and the
matter was not mentioned in Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt at all. Fix
these.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
---
 Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 5 +++++
 Documentation/DMA-API.txt       | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 55b70b9..d69b3fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -681,6 +681,11 @@ or:
 
 as appropriate.
 
+PLEASE NOTE:  The 'nents' argument to dma_sync_sg_for_cpu() and
+	      dma_sync_sg_for_device() must be the same passed to
+	      dma_map_sg(). It is _NOT_ the count returned by
+	      dma_map_sg().
+
 After the last DMA transfer call one of the DMA unmap routines
 dma_unmap_{single,sg}(). If you don't touch the data from the first
 dma_map_*() call till dma_unmap_*(), then you don't have to call the
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index edccacd..8d065d6 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ accessed sg->address and sg->length as shown above.
 
 	void
 	dma_unmap_sg(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg,
-		int nhwentries, enum dma_data_direction direction)
+		int nents, enum dma_data_direction direction)
 
 Unmap the previously mapped scatter/gather list.  All the parameters
 must be the same as those and passed in to the scatter/gather mapping
@@ -356,10 +356,10 @@ void
 dma_sync_single_for_device(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle, size_t size,
 			   enum dma_data_direction direction)
 void
-dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
+dma_sync_sg_for_cpu(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents,
 		    enum dma_data_direction direction)
 void
-dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nelems,
+dma_sync_sg_for_device(struct device *dev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents,
 		       enum dma_data_direction direction)
 
 Synchronise a single contiguous or scatter/gather mapping for the CPU
-- 
2.1.0.231.g7484e3b

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