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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/dma-buf')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c index eae0846cbd95..91aff74ed092 100644 --- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c +++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c @@ -124,6 +124,28 @@ static loff_t dma_buf_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence) return base + offset; } +/** + * DOC: fence polling + * + * To support cross-device and cross-driver synchronization of buffer access + * implicit fences (represented internally in the kernel with struct &fence) can + * be attached to a &dma_buf. The glue for that and a few related things are + * provided in the &reservation_object structure. + * + * Userspace can query the state of these implicitly tracked fences using poll() + * and related system calls: + * + * - Checking for POLLIN, i.e. read access, can be use to query the state of the + * most recent write or exclusive fence. + * + * - Checking for POLLOUT, i.e. write access, can be used to query the state of + * all attached fences, shared and exclusive ones. + * + * Note that this only signals the completion of the respective fences, i.e. the + * DMA transfers are complete. Cache flushing and any other necessary + * preparations before CPU access can begin still need to happen. + */ + static void dma_buf_poll_cb(struct dma_fence *fence, struct dma_fence_cb *cb) { struct dma_buf_poll_cb_t *dcb = (struct dma_buf_poll_cb_t *)cb; |