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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-01 12:32:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-06-01 12:32:25 -0700
commitebb8cb2bae0344ef45cc173cdf5402ec91198abd (patch)
tree7c21eb9c7a7bf9714035bd243e776e01747206ae /Documentation
parent6b15d6650c5301ce023d8df0cc3a60b1a76d377e (diff)
parentb02da6f8236148009c22167cd7013d5ce04a2d37 (diff)
downloadlinux-ebb8cb2bae0344ef45cc173cdf5402ec91198abd.tar.bz2
Merge tag 'dma-buf-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sumits/dma-buf
Pull dma-buf updates from Sumit Semwal: - use of vma_pages instead of explicit computation - DocBook and headerdoc updates for dma-buf * tag 'dma-buf-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sumits/dma-buf: dma-buf: use vma_pages() fence: add missing descriptions for fence doc: update/fixup dma-buf related DocBook reservation: add headerdoc comments dma-buf: headerdoc fixes
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl36
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
index de79efdad46c..8c68768ebee5 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>