linux-toradex.git/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl, branch v4.2.6

Fix docs build failure caused by i2o removal

2015-02-16T19:52:08+00:00

The movement of the I2O tree into staging broke the DocBook build.  Rather
than redirect the i2o references into staging, it seems better to just
remove them since this code is on its way out anyway.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-08-06T00:46:42+00:00

Pull timer and time updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather large update of timers, timekeeping & co

- Core timekeeping code is year-2038 safe now for 32bit machines.
Now we just need to fix all in kernel users and the gazillion of
user space interfaces which rely on timespec/timeval :)

- Better cache layout for the timekeeping internal data structures.

- Proper nanosecond based interfaces for in kernel users.

- Tree wide cleanup of code which wants nanoseconds but does hoops
and loops to convert back and forth from timespecs. Some of it
definitely belongs into the ugly code museum.

- Consolidation of the timekeeping interface zoo.

- A fast NMI safe accessor to clock monotonic for tracing. This is a
long standing request to support correlated user/kernel space
traces. With proper NTP frequency correction it's also suitable
for correlation of traces accross separate machines.

- Checkpoint/restart support for timerfd.

- A few NOHZ[_FULL] improvements in the [hr]timer code.

- Code move from kernel to kernel/time of all time* related code.

- New clocksource/event drivers from the ARM universe. I'm really
impressed that despite an architected timer in the newer chips SoC
manufacturers insist on inventing new and differently broken SoC
specific timers.

[ Ed. "Impressed"? I don't think that word means what you think it means ]

- Another round of code move from arch to drivers. Looks like most
of the legacy mess in ARM regarding timers is sorted out except for
a few obnoxious strongholds.

- The usual updates and fixlets all over the place"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
timekeeping: Fixup typo in update_vsyscall_old definition
clocksource: document some basic timekeeping concepts
timekeeping: Use cached ntp_tick_length when accumulating error
timekeeping: Rework frequency adjustments to work better w/ nohz
timekeeping: Minor fixup for timespec64->timespec assignment
ftrace: Provide trace clocks monotonic
timekeeping: Provide fast and NMI safe access to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
seqcount: Add raw_write_seqcount_latch()
seqcount: Provide raw_read_seqcount()
timekeeping: Use tk_read_base as argument for timekeeping_get_ns()
timekeeping: Create struct tk_read_base and use it in struct timekeeper
timekeeping: Restructure the timekeeper some more
clocksource: Get rid of cycle_last
clocksource: Move cycle_last validation to core code
clocksource: Make delta calculation a function
wireless: ath9k: Get rid of timespec conversions
drm: vmwgfx: Use nsec based interfaces
drm: i915: Use nsec based interfaces
timekeeping: Provide ktime_get_raw()
hangcheck-timer: Use ktime_get_ns()
...

Documentation: Docbook: Fix files location change of kernel/[hr]timer.c

2014-07-10T20:21:06+00:00

make xmldocs failed because of file location change
from kernel/[hr]timer.c to kernel/time/[hr]timer.c.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405017830-31194-1-git-send-email-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

reservation: update api and add some helpers

2014-07-08T20:37:35+00:00

Move the list of shared fences to a struct, and return it in
reservation_object_get_list().
Add reservation_object_get_excl to get the exclusive fence.

Add reservation_object_reserve_shared(), which reserves space
in the reservation_object for 1 more shared fence.

reservation_object_add_shared_fence() and
reservation_object_add_excl_fence() are used to assign a new
fence to a reservation_object pointer, to complete a reservation.

Changes since v1:
- Add reservation_object_get_excl, reorder code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

seqno-fence: Hardware dma-buf implementation of fencing (v6)

2014-07-08T19:50:59+00:00

This type of fence can be used with hardware synchronization for simple
hardware that can block execution until the condition
(dma_buf[offset] - value) >= 0 has been met when WAIT_GEQUAL is used,
or (dma_buf[offset] != 0) has been met when WAIT_NONZERO is set.

A software fallback still has to be provided in case the fence is used
with a device that doesn't support this mechanism. It is useful to expose
this for graphics cards that have an op to support this.

Some cards like i915 can export those, but don't have an option to wait,
so they need the software fallback.

I extended the original patch by Rob Clark.

v1: Original
v2: Renamed from bikeshed to seqno, moved into dma-fence.c since
    not much was left of the file. Lots of documentation added.
v3: Use fence_ops instead of custom callbacks. Moved to own file
    to avoid circular dependency between dma-buf.h and fence.h
v4: Add spinlock pointer to seqno_fence_init
v5: Add condition member to allow wait for != 0.
    Fix small style errors pointed out by checkpatch.
v6: Move to a separate file. Fix up api changes in fences.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark  #v4
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fence: dma-buf cross-device synchronization (v18)

2014-07-08T19:18:56+00:00

A fence can be attached to a buffer which is being filled or consumed
by hw, to allow userspace to pass the buffer without waiting to another
device.  For example, userspace can call page_flip ioctl to display the
next frame of graphics after kicking the GPU but while the GPU is still
rendering.  The display device sharing the buffer with the GPU would
attach a callback to get notified when the GPU's rendering-complete IRQ
fires, to update the scan-out address of the display, without having to
wake up userspace.

A driver must allocate a fence context for each execution ring that can
run in parallel. The function for this takes an argument with how many
contexts to allocate:
  + fence_context_alloc()

A fence is transient, one-shot deal.  It is allocated and attached
to one or more dma-buf's.  When the one that attached it is done, with
the pending operation, it can signal the fence:
  + fence_signal()

To have a rough approximation whether a fence is fired, call:
  + fence_is_signaled()

The dma-buf-mgr handles tracking, and waiting on, the fences associated
with a dma-buf.

The one pending on the fence can add an async callback:
  + fence_add_callback()

The callback can optionally be cancelled with:
  + fence_remove_callback()

To wait synchronously, optionally with a timeout:
  + fence_wait()
  + fence_wait_timeout()

When emitting a fence, call:
  + trace_fence_emit()

To annotate that a fence is blocking on another fence, call:
  + trace_fence_annotate_wait_on(fence, on_fence)

A default software-only implementation is provided, which can be used
by drivers attaching a fence to a buffer when they have no other means
for hw sync.  But a memory backed fence is also envisioned, because it
is common that GPU's can write to, or poll on some memory location for
synchronization.  For example:

  fence = custom_get_fence(...);
  if ((seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence)) != NULL) {
    dma_buf *fence_buf = seqno_fence->sync_buf;
    get_dma_buf(fence_buf);

    ... tell the hw the memory location to wait ...
    custom_wait_on(fence_buf, seqno_fence->seqno_ofs, fence->seqno);
  } else {
    /* fall-back to sw sync * /
    fence_add_callback(fence, my_cb);
  }

On SoC platforms, if some other hw mechanism is provided for synchronizing
between IP blocks, it could be supported as an alternate implementation
with it's own fence ops in a similar way.

enable_signaling callback is used to provide sw signaling in case a cpu
waiter is requested or no compatible hardware signaling could be used.

The intention is to provide a userspace interface (presumably via eventfd)
later, to be used in conjunction with dma-buf's mmap support for sw access
to buffers (or for userspace apps that would prefer to do their own
synchronization).

v1: Original
v2: After discussion w/ danvet and mlankhorst on #dri-devel, we decided
    that dma-fence didn't need to care about the sw->hw signaling path
    (it can be handled same as sw->sw case), and therefore the fence->ops
    can be simplified and more handled in the core.  So remove the signal,
    add_callback, cancel_callback, and wait ops, and replace with a simple
    enable_signaling() op which can be used to inform a fence supporting
    hw->hw signaling that one or more devices which do not support hw
    signaling are waiting (and therefore it should enable an irq or do
    whatever is necessary in order that the CPU is notified when the
    fence is passed).
v3: Fix locking fail in attach_fence() and get_fence()
v4: Remove tie-in w/ dma-buf..  after discussion w/ danvet and mlankorst
    we decided that we need to be able to attach one fence to N dma-buf's,
    so using the list_head in dma-fence struct would be problematic.
v5: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Updated for dma-bikeshed-fence and dma-buf-manager.
v6: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] I removed dma_fence_cancel_callback and some comments
    about checking if fence fired or not. This is broken by design.
    waitqueue_active during destruction is now fatal, since the signaller
    should be holding a reference in enable_signalling until it signalled
    the fence. Pass the original dma_fence_cb along, and call __remove_wait
    in the dma_fence_callback handler, so that no cleanup needs to be
    performed.
v7: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Set cb->func and only enable sw signaling if
    fence wasn't signaled yet, for example for hardware fences that may
    choose to signal blindly.
v8: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Tons of tiny fixes, moved __dma_fence_init to
    header and fixed include mess. dma-fence.h now includes dma-buf.h
    All members are now initialized, so kmalloc can be used for
    allocating a dma-fence. More documentation added.
v9: Change compiler bitfields to flags, change return type of
    enable_signaling to bool. Rework dma_fence_wait. Added
    dma_fence_is_signaled and dma_fence_wait_timeout.
    s/dma// and change exports to non GPL. Added fence_is_signaled and
    fence_enable_sw_signaling calls, add ability to override default
    wait operation.
v10: remove event_queue, use a custom list, export try_to_wake_up from
    scheduler. Remove fence lock and use a global spinlock instead,
    this should hopefully remove all the locking headaches I was having
    on trying to implement this. enable_signaling is called with this
    lock held.
v11:
    Use atomic ops for flags, lifting the need for some spin_lock_irqsaves.
    However I kept the guarantee that after fence_signal returns, it is
    guaranteed that enable_signaling has either been called to completion,
    or will not be called any more.

    Add contexts and seqno to base fence implementation. This allows you
    to wait for less fences, by testing for seqno + signaled, and then only
    wait on the later fence.

    Add FENCE_TRACE, FENCE_WARN, and FENCE_ERR. This makes debugging easier.
    An CONFIG_DEBUG_FENCE will be added to turn off the FENCE_TRACE
    spam, and another runtime option can turn it off at runtime.
v12:
    Add CONFIG_FENCE_TRACE. Add missing documentation for the fence->context
    and fence->seqno members.
v13:
    Fixup CONFIG_FENCE_TRACE kconfig description.
    Move fence_context_alloc to fence.
    Simplify fence_later.
    Kill priv member to fence_cb.
v14:
    Remove priv argument from fence_add_callback, oops!
v15:
    Remove priv from documentation.
    Explicitly include linux/atomic.h.
v16:
    Add trace events.
    Import changes required by android syncpoints.
v17:
    Use wake_up_state instead of try_to_wake_up. (Colin Cross)
    Fix up commit description for seqno_fence. (Rob Clark)
v18:
    Rename release_fence to fence_release.
    Move to drivers/dma-buf/.
    Rename __fence_is_signaled and __fence_signal to *_locked.
    Rename __fence_init to fence_init.
    Make fence_default_wait return a signed long, and fix wait ops too.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding  #use smp_mb__before_atomic()
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dma-buf: move to drivers/dma-buf

2014-07-08T17:51:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst 
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fbdev: move fbdev core files to separate directory

2014-04-17T05:10:19+00:00

Instead of having fbdev framework core files at the root fbdev
directory, mixed with random fbdev device drivers, move the fbdev core
files to a separate core directory. This makes it much clearer which of
the files are actually part of the fbdev framework, and which are part
of device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen 
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rob Clark 
Acked-by: Jingoo Han 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter

video: move fbdev to drivers/video/fbdev

2014-04-17T05:10:19+00:00

The drivers/video directory is a mess. It contains generic video related
files, directories for backlight, console, linux logo, lots of fbdev
device drivers, fbdev framework files.

Make some order into the chaos by creating drivers/video/fbdev
directory, and move all fbdev related files there.

No functionality is changed, although I guess it is possible that some
subtle Makefile build order related issue could be created by this
patch.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen 
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Acked-by: Rob Clark 
Acked-by: Jingoo Han 
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter

doc: fix generation of device-drivers

2013-11-28T04:40:04+00:00

Since commit 7a6354e241d8 ("sched: Move wait.c into kernel/sched/"), the
path of this file has changed.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds