include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent()
Lots of driver code does a dma_alloc_coherent() and then zeroes out the
memory with a memset. Make it easy for them.
Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index fe23269..66bd97a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,13 @@
implementation may choose to ignore flags that affect the location of
the returned memory, like GFP_DMA).
+void *
+dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+ dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+
+Wraps dma_alloc_coherent() and also zeroes the returned memory if the
+allocation attempt succeeded.
+
void
dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr,
dma_addr_t dma_handle)
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 347fdc3..be86ae1 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
#ifndef _LINUX_DMA_MAPPING_H
#define _LINUX_DMA_MAPPING_H
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/dma-attrs.h>
@@ -117,6 +118,15 @@
return -EIO;
}
+static inline void *dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+ dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+{
+ void *ret = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flag);
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, size);
+ return ret;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DMA
static inline int dma_get_cache_alignment(void)
{