docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent
authorPetr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:10:09 +0000 (12:10 +0200)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 1 Jul 2025 19:25:36 +0000 (13:25 -0600)
commit4d3c6bc11b057a8cf0e76f49d4f0d7184b0e32b6
tree98f705c0ff9ca7689926d4ea80c44ce8c1b93cbd
parent7362b6ba173a70e23dbf1ffb8cfa8057a63eb65b
docs: dma-api: replace consistent with coherent

For consistency, always use the term "coherent" when talking about memory
that is not subject to CPU caching effects. The term "consistent" is a
relic of a long-removed PCI DMA API (pci_alloc_consistent() and
pci_free_consistent() functions).

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250627101015.1600042-3-ptesarik@suse.com
Documentation/core-api/dma-api-howto.rst
Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst
mm/dmapool.c