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From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.com>
To: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>
Cc: "Gustavo Padovan" <gustavo@padovan.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Daniel Stone" <daniels@collabora.com>,
	"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
	"Riley Andrews" <riandrews@android.com>,
	"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
	"Rob Clark" <robdclark@gmail.com>,
	"Greg Hackmann" <ghackmann@google.com>,
	"John Harrison" <John.C.Harrison@Intel.com>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	"Sumit Semwal" <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>,
	"Gustavo Padovan" <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>,
	pavel@ucw.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] staging/android: add Doc for SW_SYNC ioctl interface
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:41:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811164129.GC12212@joana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160811153939.GS10429@imgtec.com>

2016-08-11 Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:26:43PM -0300, Gustavo Padovan wrote:
> > From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
> > 
> > This interface is hidden from kernel headers and it is intended for use
> > only for testing. So testers would have to add the ioctl information
> > internally. This is to prevent misuse of this feature.
> > 
> > v2: take in Eric suggestions for the Documentation
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
> > Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c b/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
> > index 039e1f4..498ab55 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/android/sw_sync.c
> > @@ -25,6 +25,36 @@
> >  #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> >  #include "sync_trace.h"
> >  
> > +/*
> > + * SW SYNC validation framework
> > + *
> > + * A sync object driver that uses a 32bit counter to coordinate
> > + * synchronization.  Useful when there is no hardware primitive backing
> > + * the synchronization.
> > + *
> > + * To start the framework just open:
> > + *
> > + * <debugfs>/sync/sw_sync
> > + *
> > + * That will create a sync timeline, all fences created under this timeline
> > + * file descriptor will belong to the this timeline.
> > + *
> > + * The 'sw_sync' file can be opened many times as to create different
> > + * timelines.
> > + *
> > + * Fences can be created with SW_SYNC_IOC_CREATE_FENCE ioctl with struct
> > + * sw_sync_ioctl_create_fence as parameter.
> > + *
> > + * To increment the timeline counter, SW_SYNC_IOC_INC ioctl should be used
> > + * with the increment as u32. This will update the last signaled value
> > + * from the timeline and signal any fence that has seqno smaller of equal
> > + * it.
> 
> You didn't fix all of it: "that has a seqno smaller or equal to it."
> Missing "a" (just noticed), s/of/or/, and missing "to"  :)

Oh. Right. I didn't pay attention to all your fixes in that phrase.
Thanks. I'll send an updated patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-11 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 15:26 [PATCH v3 0/5] de-stage SW_SYNC validation frawework Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-11 15:26 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] staging/android: do not let userspace trigger WARN_ON Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-11 15:26 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] staging/android: move trace/sync.h to sync_trace.h Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-11 15:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] staging/android: prepare sw_sync files for de-staging Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-11 15:26 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] staging/android: add Doc for SW_SYNC ioctl interface Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-11 15:39   ` Eric Engestrom
2016-08-11 16:41     ` Gustavo Padovan [this message]
2016-08-11 16:45   ` [PATCH] " Gustavo Padovan
2016-08-18 12:07     ` Pavel Machek
2016-08-11 15:26 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] dma-buf/sw_sync: de-stage SW_SYNC Gustavo Padovan

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