Commit e7e21c72 authored by Daniel Vetter's avatar Daniel Vetter Committed by Sumit Semwal

dma-buf: Final bits of doc polish

- Put all the remaing bits of the old doc into suitable places in the
  new sphinx world.
- Also document the poll support, we forgot to do that.
- Delete dma-buf-sharing.txt.

v2: Don't forget to update MAINTAINERS.

Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161209215055.3492-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
parent 0959a168
DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sumit Semwal
<sumit dot semwal at linaro dot org>
<sumit dot semwal at ti dot com>
Other Interfaces Exposed to Userspace on the dma-buf FD
------------------------------------------------------
- Since kernel 3.12 the dma-buf FD supports the llseek system call, but only
with offset=0 and whence=SEEK_END|SEEK_SET. SEEK_SET is supported to allow
the usual size discover pattern size = SEEK_END(0); SEEK_SET(0). Every other
llseek operation will report -EINVAL.
If llseek on dma-buf FDs isn't support the kernel will report -ESPIPE for all
cases. Userspace can use this to detect support for discovering the dma-buf
size using llseek.
Miscellaneous notes
-------------------
- Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have
a 'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs.
- In order to avoid fd leaks on exec, the FD_CLOEXEC flag must be set
on the file descriptor. This is not just a resource leak, but a
potential security hole. It could give the newly exec'd application
access to buffers, via the leaked fd, to which it should otherwise
not be permitted access.
The problem with doing this via a separate fcntl() call, versus doing it
atomically when the fd is created, is that this is inherently racy in a
multi-threaded app[3]. The issue is made worse when it is library code
opening/creating the file descriptor, as the application may not even be
aware of the fd's.
To avoid this problem, userspace must have a way to request O_CLOEXEC
flag be set when the dma-buf fd is created. So any API provided by
the exporting driver to create a dmabuf fd must provide a way to let
userspace control setting of O_CLOEXEC flag passed in to dma_buf_fd().
References:
[1] struct dma_buf_ops in include/linux/dma-buf.h
[2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/dma-buf.h
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/236486/
......@@ -46,6 +46,48 @@ The buffer-user
same area of memory. This interface is provided by :c:type:`struct
dma_buf_attachment <dma_buf_attachment>`.
Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have a
'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs.
Userspace Interface Notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mostly a DMA buffer file descriptor is simply an opaque object for userspace,
and hence the generic interface exposed is very minimal. There's a few things to
consider though:
- Since kernel 3.12 the dma-buf FD supports the llseek system call, but only
with offset=0 and whence=SEEK_END|SEEK_SET. SEEK_SET is supported to allow
the usual size discover pattern size = SEEK_END(0); SEEK_SET(0). Every other
llseek operation will report -EINVAL.
If llseek on dma-buf FDs isn't support the kernel will report -ESPIPE for all
cases. Userspace can use this to detect support for discovering the dma-buf
size using llseek.
- In order to avoid fd leaks on exec, the FD_CLOEXEC flag must be set
on the file descriptor. This is not just a resource leak, but a
potential security hole. It could give the newly exec'd application
access to buffers, via the leaked fd, to which it should otherwise
not be permitted access.
The problem with doing this via a separate fcntl() call, versus doing it
atomically when the fd is created, is that this is inherently racy in a
multi-threaded app[3]. The issue is made worse when it is library code
opening/creating the file descriptor, as the application may not even be
aware of the fd's.
To avoid this problem, userspace must have a way to request O_CLOEXEC
flag be set when the dma-buf fd is created. So any API provided by
the exporting driver to create a dmabuf fd must provide a way to let
userspace control setting of O_CLOEXEC flag passed in to dma_buf_fd().
- Memory mapping the contents of the DMA buffer is also supported. See the
discussion below on `CPU Access to DMA Buffer Objects`_ for the full details.
- The DMA buffer FD is also pollable, see `Fence Poll Support`_ below for
details.
Basic Operation and Device DMA Access
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
......@@ -58,6 +100,12 @@ CPU Access to DMA Buffer Objects
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
:doc: cpu access
Fence Poll Support
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
:doc: fence polling
Kernel Functions and Structures Reference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
......
......@@ -3917,7 +3917,7 @@ F: drivers/dma-buf/
F: include/linux/dma-buf*
F: include/linux/reservation.h
F: include/linux/*fence.h
F: Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
F: Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
T: git git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc
SYNC FILE FRAMEWORK
......
......@@ -124,6 +124,28 @@ static loff_t dma_buf_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
return base + offset;
}
/**
* DOC: fence polling
*
* To support cross-device and cross-driver synchronization of buffer access
* implicit fences (represented internally in the kernel with struct &fence) can
* be attached to a &dma_buf. The glue for that and a few related things are
* provided in the &reservation_object structure.
*
* Userspace can query the state of these implicitly tracked fences using poll()
* and related system calls:
*
* - Checking for POLLIN, i.e. read access, can be use to query the state of the
* most recent write or exclusive fence.
*
* - Checking for POLLOUT, i.e. write access, can be used to query the state of
* all attached fences, shared and exclusive ones.
*
* Note that this only signals the completion of the respective fences, i.e. the
* DMA transfers are complete. Cache flushing and any other necessary
* preparations before CPU access can begin still need to happen.
*/
static void dma_buf_poll_cb(struct dma_fence *fence, struct dma_fence_cb *cb)
{
struct dma_buf_poll_cb_t *dcb = (struct dma_buf_poll_cb_t *)cb;
......
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