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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/regmap.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/regmap.h b/include/linux/regmap.h index f9ccad32fc5c..da07584284ab 100644 --- a/include/linux/regmap.h +++ b/include/linux/regmap.h @@ -54,7 +54,14 @@ struct sdw_slave; #define REGMAP_UPSHIFT(s) (-(s)) #define REGMAP_DOWNSHIFT(s) (s) -/* An enum of all the supported cache types */ +/* + * The supported cache types, the default is no cache. Any new caches + * should usually use the maple tree cache unless they specifically + * require that there are never any allocations at runtime and can't + * provide defaults in which case they should use the flat cache. The + * rbtree cache *may* have some performance advantage for very low end + * systems that make heavy use of cache syncs but is mainly legacy. + */ enum regcache_type { REGCACHE_NONE, REGCACHE_RBTREE, |