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Daniel Vetter authored
The userspace 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 circumvent this problem there are begin/end coherency markers, that forward directly to existing dma-buf device drivers vfunc hooks. Userspace can make use of those markers through the DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC ioctl. The sequence would be used like following: - mmap dma-buf fd - for each drawing/upload cycle in CPU 1. SYNC_START ioctl, 2. read/write to mmap area 3. SYNC_END ioctl. This can be repeated as often as you want (with the new data being consumed by the GPU or say scanout device) - munmap once you don't need the buffer any more v2 (Tiago): Fix header file type names (u64 -> __u64) v3 (Tiago): Add documentation. Use enum dma_buf_sync_flags to the begin/end dma-buf functions. Check for overflows in start/length. v4 (Tiago): use 2d regions for sync. v5 (Tiago): forget about 2d regions (v4); use _IOW in DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC and remove range information from struct dma_buf_sync. v6 (Tiago): use __u64 structured padded flags instead enum. Adjust documentation about the recommendation on using sync ioctls. v7 (Tiago): Alex' nit on flags definition and being even more wording in the doc about sync usage. v9 (Tiago): remove useless is_dma_buf_file check. Fix sync.flags conditionals and its mask order check. Add <linux/types.h> include in dma-buf.h. Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@intel.com> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1455228291-29640-1-git-send-email-tiago.vignatti@intel.com
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