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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2016-12-09 19:53:05 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-12-11 13:37:55 -0700
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dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst
Just prep work to polish and consolidate all the dma-buf related documenation. Unfortunately I didn't discover a way to both integrate this new file into the overall toc while keeping it at the current place. Work around that by moving it into the overall driver-api/index.rst. Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -46,76 +46,6 @@ Device Drivers Base
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/bus.c
:export:
-Buffer Sharing and Synchronization
-----------------------------------
-
-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.
-
-This is used, for example, by drm "prime" multi-GPU support, but is of
-course not limited to GPU use cases.
-
-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.
-
-dma-buf
-~~~~~~~
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dma-buf.h
- :internal:
-
-reservation
-~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
- :doc: Reservation Object Overview
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h
- :internal:
-
-fence
-~~~~~
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dma-fence.h
- :internal:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/seqno-fence.h
- :internal:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence-array.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/dma-fence-array.h
- :internal:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/reservation.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/reservation.h
- :internal:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c
- :export:
-
-.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sync_file.h
- :internal:
-
Device Drivers DMA Management
-----------------------------