From: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] doc: update/fixup dma-buf related DocBook
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:26:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1459456012-16248-5-git-send-email-robdclark@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459456012-16248-1-git-send-email-robdclark@gmail.com>
Split out dma-buf related parts into their own section, add missing
files, and write a bit of overview about how it all fits together.
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
index cdd8b24..9c41af9 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl
@@ -128,14 +128,42 @@ 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
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title>
!Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c
!Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c
</sect1>
--
2.5.5
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-31 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-31 20:26 [PATCH 0/4] dma-buf/reservation doc updates Rob Clark
2016-03-31 20:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] reservation: sprinkle some WARN_ON()s Rob Clark
2016-04-01 8:48 ` Lucas Stach
2016-04-01 14:50 ` Rob Clark
2016-04-01 14:02 ` Christian König
2016-03-31 20:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] dma-buf: headerdoc fixes Rob Clark
2016-03-31 20:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] reservation: add headerdoc comments Rob Clark
2016-03-31 20:26 ` Rob Clark [this message]
2016-04-01 14:07 ` [PATCH 0/4] dma-buf/reservation doc updates Alex Deucher
2016-04-01 15:20 ` Sumit Semwal
2016-06-04 12:21 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-06-05 11:17 ` Sumit Semwal
2016-06-05 17:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-06-06 4:41 ` Sumit Semwal
[not found] <Message-Id: <1459456012-16248-2-git-send-email-robdclark@gmail.com>
2016-04-08 0:52 ` [PATCH] reservation: sprinkle some WARN_ON()s Rob Clark
2016-06-04 12:52 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-06-04 15:47 ` Rob Clark
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