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authorAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
committerAndré Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu>2016-10-20 00:10:27 -0300
commitd0b2f91bede3bd5e3d24dd6803e56eee959c1797 (patch)
tree7fee4ab0509879c373c4f2cbd5b8a5be5b4041ee /drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
parente914f8eb445e8f74b00303c19c2ffceaedd16a05 (diff)
Linux-libre 4.8.2-gnupck-4.8.2-gnu
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diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig b/drivers/dma-buf/Kconfig
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menu "DMABUF options"
config SYNC_FILE
- bool "sync_file support for fences"
+ bool "Explicit Synchronization Framework"
default n
select ANON_INODES
select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER
---help---
- This option enables the fence framework synchronization to export
- sync_files to userspace that can represent one or more fences.
+ The Sync File Framework adds explicit syncronization via
+ userspace. It enables send/receive 'struct fence' objects to/from
+ userspace via Sync File fds for synchronization between drivers via
+ userspace components. It has been ported from Android.
+
+ The first and main user for this is graphics in which a fence is
+ associated with a buffer. When a job is submitted to the GPU a fence
+ is attached to the buffer and is transferred via userspace, using Sync
+ Files fds, to the DRM driver for example. More details at
+ Documentation/sync_file.txt.
+
endmenu