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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-23 07:59:19 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-23 07:59:19 -0300 |
commit | c278256d05a2fc75b427fa6a5dc0024faa93465d (patch) | |
tree | 2c09c6c65a4b6c597a568ec2425adb75eff7d5d5 /Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | |
parent | 7e5b7d1b3a8facd4dc1ddb5d9ec53c0687d13de7 (diff) | |
parent | 009a620848218d521f008141c62f56bf19294dd9 (diff) | |
download | linux-c278256d05a2fc75b427fa6a5dc0024faa93465d.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'patchwork' into topic/docs-next
* patchwork: (1492 commits)
[media] cec: always check all_device_types and features
[media] cec: poll should check if there is room in the tx queue
[media] vivid: support monitor all mode
[media] cec: fix test for unconfigured adapter in main message loop
[media] cec: limit the size of the transmit queue
[media] cec: zero unused msg part after msg->len
[media] cec: don't set fh to NULL in CEC_TRANSMIT
[media] cec: clear all status fields before transmit and always fill in sequence
[media] cec: CEC_RECEIVE overwrote the timeout field
[media] cxd2841er: Reading SNR for DVB-C added
[media] cxd2841er: Reading BER and UCB for DVB-C added
[media] cxd2841er: fix switch-case for DVB-C
[media] cxd2841er: fix signal strength scale for ISDB-T
[media] cxd2841er: adjust the dB scale for DVB-C
[media] cxd2841er: provide signal strength for DVB-C
[media] cxd2841er: fix BER report via DVBv5 stats API
[media] mb86a20s: apply mask to val after checking for read failure
[media] airspy: fix error logic during device register
[media] s5p-cec/TODO: add TODO item
[media] cec/TODO: drop comment about sphinx documentation
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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 36 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index e9f77f2fe27b..7febdeb08159 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -128,16 +128,44 @@ X!Edrivers/base/interface.c !Edrivers/base/platform.c !Edrivers/base/bus.c </sect1> - <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title> + <sect1> + <title>Buffer Sharing and Synchronization</title> + <para> + The dma-buf subsystem provides the framework for sharing buffers + for hardware (DMA) access across multiple device drivers and + subsystems, and for synchronizing asynchronous hardware access. + </para> + <para> + This is used, for example, by drm "prime" multi-GPU support, but + is of course not limited to GPU use cases. + </para> + <para> + The three main components of this are: (1) dma-buf, representing + a sg_table and exposed to userspace as a file descriptor to allow + passing between devices, (2) fence, which provides a mechanism + to signal when one device as finished access, and (3) reservation, + which manages the shared or exclusive fence(s) associated with + the buffer. + </para> + <sect2><title>dma-buf</title> !Edrivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c +!Iinclude/linux/dma-buf.h + </sect2> + <sect2><title>reservation</title> +!Pdrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c Reservation Object Overview +!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c +!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h + </sect2> + <sect2><title>fence</title> !Edrivers/dma-buf/fence.c -!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c !Iinclude/linux/fence.h +!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c !Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h -!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c -!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h !Edrivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c !Iinclude/linux/sync_file.h + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title> !Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c !Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c </sect1> |