linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/8] update DMA API documentation

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Message-ID: <20250624133923.1140421-1-ptesarik@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:39:15 +0200
From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>,
	Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@...estorage.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org (open list:DOCUMENTATION),
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list),
	linux-mm@...ck.org (open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT),
	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/8] update DMA API documentation

A few documentation updates:

* remove outdated and confusing parts
* reduce duplicates
* update streaming DMA API expectations

Petr Tesarik (8):
  docs: dma-api: use "DMA API" consistently throughout the document
  docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent
  docs: dma-api: remove remnants of PCI DMA API
  docs: dma-api: add a kernel-doc comment for dma_pool_zalloc()
  docs: dma-api: remove duplicate description of the DMA pool API
  docs: dma-api: clarify DMA addressing limitations
  docs: dma-api: update streaming DMA API physical address constraints
  docs: dma-api: clean up documentation of dma_map_sg()

 Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst |  36 ++---
 Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst       | 173 +++++++----------------
 Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst        |   4 +
 include/linux/dmapool.h                  |   8 ++
 mm/dmapool.c                             |   6 +-
 5 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)

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