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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-07-23 12:59:19 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-07-23 12:59:19 +0200
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* patchwork: (1492 commits) [media] cec: always check all_device_types and features [media] cec: poll should check if there is room in the tx queue [media] vivid: support monitor all mode [media] cec: fix test for unconfigured adapter in main message loop [media] cec: limit the size of the transmit queue [media] cec: zero unused msg part after msg->len [media] cec: don't set fh to NULL in CEC_TRANSMIT [media] cec: clear all status fields before transmit and always fill in sequence [media] cec: CEC_RECEIVE overwrote the timeout field [media] cxd2841er: Reading SNR for DVB-C added [media] cxd2841er: Reading BER and UCB for DVB-C added [media] cxd2841er: fix switch-case for DVB-C [media] cxd2841er: fix signal strength scale for ISDB-T [media] cxd2841er: adjust the dB scale for DVB-C [media] cxd2841er: provide signal strength for DVB-C [media] cxd2841er: fix BER report via DVBv5 stats API [media] mb86a20s: apply mask to val after checking for read failure [media] airspy: fix error logic during device register [media] s5p-cec/TODO: add TODO item [media] cec/TODO: drop comment about sphinx documentation ... Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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@@ -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>