<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ANSI_X3.4-1968" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968" /><title>dma_release_from_coherent</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Device Drivers" /><link rel="up" href="ch02s03.html" title="Device Drivers DMA Management" /><link rel="prev" href="API-dma-alloc-from-coherent.html" title="dma_alloc_from_coherent" /><link rel="next" href="API-dma-mmap-from-coherent.html" title="dma_mmap_from_coherent" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">dma_release_from_coherent</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-dma-alloc-from-coherent.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Device Drivers DMA Management</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-dma-mmap-from-coherent.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry"><a id="API-dma-release-from-coherent"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>dma_release_from_coherent — try to free the memory allocated from per-device coherent memory pool </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <strong class="fsfunc">dma_release_from_coherent </strong>(</code></td><td>struct device * <var class="pdparam">dev</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>int <var class="pdparam">order</var>, </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td>void * <var class="pdparam">vaddr</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer"> </div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm140404963044192"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>dev</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> device from which the memory was allocated </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>order</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> the order of pages allocated </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>vaddr</code></em></span></dt><dd><p> virtual address of allocated pages </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm140404963036960"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> This checks whether the memory was allocated from the per-device coherent memory pool and if so, releases that memory. </p><p> Returns 1 if we correctly released the memory, or 0 if <code class="function">dma_release_coherent</code> should proceed with releasing memory from generic pools. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-dma-alloc-from-coherent.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02s03.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="API-dma-mmap-from-coherent.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span class="phrase">dma_alloc_from_coherent</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> <span class="phrase">dma_mmap_from_coherent</span></td></tr></table></div></body></html>