Here's what I came up with earlier in the week.
Index: bus_dma.9 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/man/man9/bus_dma.9,v retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -r1.31 bus_dma.9 --- bus_dma.9 13 Dec 2005 17:07:52 -0000 1.31 +++ bus_dma.9 2 Mar 2006 21:14:40 -0000 @@ -265,14 +265,41 @@ .It Dv BUS_DMASYNC_PREREAD Perform any synchronization required prior to an update of host memory by the DMA read operation. +.Pp +In other words, the driver is about to command the device to start +a DMA operation that transfers data from the +device to the memory described by this map. +And pending writes to this part of memory that the CPU might have queued +up will either be discarded or be completed after this operation completes. .It Dv BUS_DMASYNC_PREWRITE Perform any synchronization required after an update of host memory by the CPU and prior to DMA write operations. +.Pp +In other words, the CPU flushes any cached writes to the area of memory +described by this map so they are visible when the device does its +DMA READ operation on the memory described by the map. +An implementation may also use this to implement bounce buffers and +memory barriers. .It Dv BUS_DMASYNC_POSTREAD Perform any synchronization required after DMA read operations and prior to CPU access to host memory. +.Pp +In other words, the CPU discards the cached values for the memory range +described by the map. +Future reads to the memory range described by the map will fetch the values +from memory. +An implementation is free to reload the cache before any driver initiated +reads to this memory. +An implementation may also use this to implement bounce buffers and +memory barriers. .It Dv BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE Perform any synchronization required after DMA write operations. +.Pp +In other words, this is completely useless. +The driver writer has noticed that the device has indicated the DMA READ +operation has completed. +It is theoretically possible that this would cause the device to do something +but it is unclear what. .El .It Vt bus_dma_lock_t Client specified lock/mutex manipulation method. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"