dma-mapping: better document dma_addr_t and DMA_MAPPING_ERROR

Move the comment documenting dma_addr_t away from the dma_map_ops
definition which isn't very related to it, and toward DMA_MAPPING_ERROR,
which is somewhat related.  Add a little blurb about DMA_MAPPING_ERROR
as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
index 51e93d44b826c895adca0a938b66d39e8b245bae..943479fb77f6b8cbee9d3596ac44fe076c5774a5 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
@@ -67,12 +67,6 @@
  */
 #define DMA_ATTR_PRIVILEGED            (1UL << 9)
 
-/*
- * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform.
- * It can be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target.  A CPU cannot
- * reference a dma_addr_t directly because there may be translation between
- * its physical address space and the bus address space.
- */
 struct dma_map_ops {
        void* (*alloc)(struct device *dev, size_t size,
                                dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t gfp,
@@ -131,6 +125,16 @@ struct dma_map_ops {
        unsigned long (*get_merge_boundary)(struct device *dev);
 };
 
+/*
+ * A dma_addr_t can hold any valid DMA or bus address for the platform.  It can
+ * be given to a device to use as a DMA source or target.  It is specific to a
+ * given device and there may be a translation between the CPU physical address
+ * space and the bus address space.
+ *
+ * DMA_MAPPING_ERROR is the magic error code if a mapping failed.  It should not
+ * be used directly in drivers, but checked for using dma_mapping_error()
+ * instead.
+ */
 #define DMA_MAPPING_ERROR              (~(dma_addr_t)0)
 
 extern const struct dma_map_ops dma_virt_ops;