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author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-09-11 04:34:46 -0300 |
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committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2016-09-11 04:34:46 -0300 |
commit | 863981e96738983919de841ec669e157e6bdaeb0 (patch) | |
tree | d6d89a12e7eb8017837c057935a2271290907f76 /Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | |
parent | 8dec7c70575785729a6a9e6719a955e9c545bcab (diff) |
Linux-libre 4.7.1-gnupck-4.7.1-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 39 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index 184f3c7b5..8c68768eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -128,14 +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> @@ -233,6 +263,7 @@ X!Isound/sound_firmware.c !Iinclude/media/v4l2-mediabus.h !Iinclude/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h !Iinclude/media/v4l2-of.h +!Iinclude/media/v4l2-rect.h !Iinclude/media/v4l2-subdev.h !Iinclude/media/videobuf2-core.h !Iinclude/media/videobuf2-v4l2.h |