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authorGustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>2016-08-05 10:39:37 -0300
committerSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>2016-08-11 15:33:24 +0530
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Documentation: add doc for sync_file_get_fence()
Document the new function added to sync_file.c v2: Adapt to fence_array v3: Take in Chris Wilson suggestions Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
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@@ -64,6 +64,20 @@ The sync_file fd now can be sent to userspace.
If the creation process fail, or the sync_file needs to be released by any
other reason fput(sync_file->file) should be used.
+Receiving Sync Files from Userspace
+-----------------------------------
+
+When userspace needs to send an in-fence to the driver it passes file descriptor
+of the Sync File to the kernel. The kernel can then retrieve the fences
+from it.
+
+Interface:
+ struct fence *sync_file_get_fence(int fd);
+
+
+The returned reference is owned by the caller and must be disposed of
+afterwards using fence_put(). In case of error, a NULL is returned instead.
+
References:
[1] struct sync_file in include/linux/sync_file.h
[2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/sync_file.h