Documentation: move the error handling to the better place in DMA-API-HOWTO

Handing DMA mapping errors is essential.  Let's put it in the more
appropriate place rather than the end of the doc.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index c3ab456422f31a46f04bb4512fd899533a9000ef..bfd94e90af51904b086f836ba2a3c7c6cdd60ccc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -639,6 +639,36 @@ is planned to completely remove virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt() as
 they are entirely deprecated.  Some ports already do not provide these
 as it is impossible to correctly support them.
 
+                       Handling Errors
+
+DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
+failure can be determined by:
+
+- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
+
+- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
+  by using dma_mapping_error():
+
+       dma_addr_t dma_handle;
+
+       dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
+       if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
+               /*
+                * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
+                * delay and try again later or
+                * reset driver.
+                */
+       }
+
+Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
+and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
+(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
+the failure case.
+
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+
                Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption
 
 On many platforms, dma_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop.
@@ -710,36 +740,6 @@ to "Closing".
 
 2) More to come...
 
-                       Handling Errors
-
-DMA address space is limited on some architectures and an allocation
-failure can be determined by:
-
-- checking if dma_alloc_coherent returns NULL or dma_map_sg returns 0
-
-- checking the returned dma_addr_t of dma_map_single and dma_map_page
-  by using dma_mapping_error():
-
-       dma_addr_t dma_handle;
-
-       dma_handle = dma_map_single(dev, addr, size, direction);
-       if (dma_mapping_error(dev, dma_handle)) {
-               /*
-                * reduce current DMA mapping usage,
-                * delay and try again later or
-                * reset driver.
-                */
-       }
-
-Networking drivers must call dev_kfree_skb to free the socket buffer
-and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
-(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
-the failure case.
-
-SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
-fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
-passes the command to the driver again later.
-
                           Closing
 
 This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current