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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-03-21 08:24:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-03-21 09:26:45 +0100 |
| commit | 87e332d56b2c7dc6733f690c9069f4fe75f21c9d (patch) | |
| tree | fc83506527f804eb1522e850b121598cefc5e0a1 /Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt | |
| parent | 3c66f4aa7f3cb6579dfe977c05fcb5db25b41cd7 (diff) | |
dma-buf: Update docs for SYNC ioctl
Just a bit of wording polish plus mentioning that it can fail and must
be restarted.
Requested by Sumit.
v2: Fix them typos (Hans).
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@intel.com>
Cc: Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@chromium.org>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
CC: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt index 32ac32e773e1..ca44c5820585 100644 --- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt +++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt @@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases: No special interfaces, userspace simply calls mmap on the dma-buf fd, making sure that the cache synchronization ioctl (DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC) is *always* - used when the access happens. This is discussed next paragraphs. + used when the access happens. Note that DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC can fail with + -EAGAIN or -EINTR, in which case it must be restarted. Some systems might need some sort of cache coherency management e.g. when CPU and GPU domains are being accessed through dma-buf at the same time. To @@ -366,10 +367,10 @@ Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases: want (with the new data being consumed by the GPU or say scanout device) - munmap once you don't need the buffer any more - Therefore, for correctness and optimal performance, systems with the memory - cache shared by the GPU and CPU i.e. the "coherent" and also the - "incoherent" are always required to use SYNC_START and SYNC_END before and - after, respectively, when accessing the mapped address. + For correctness and optimal performance, it is always required to use + SYNC_START and SYNC_END before and after, respectively, when accessing the + mapped address. Userspace cannot rely on coherent access, even when there + are systems where it just works without calling these ioctls. 2. Supporting existing mmap interfaces in importers |