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Add a new API to allocate and free memory that is guaranteed to be addressable by a device, but which potentially is not cache coherent for DMA. To transfer ownership to and from the device, the existing streaming DMA API calls dma_sync_single_for_device and dma_sync_single_for_cpu must be used. For now the new calls are implemented on top of dma_alloc_attrs just like the old-noncoherent API, but once all drivers are switched to the new API it will be replaced with a better working implementation that is available on all architectures. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Linux kernel
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