From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754106AbcGDX5o (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2016 19:57:44 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f193.google.com ([209.85.161.193]:34694 "EHLO mail-yw0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753955AbcGDX5d (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jul 2016 19:57:33 -0400 From: Gustavo Padovan To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Stone , Daniel Vetter , Rob Clark , Greg Hackmann , John Harrison , laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, seanpaul@google.com, marcheu@google.com, m.chehab@samsung.com, Sumit Semwal , Maarten Lankhorst , Gustavo Padovan Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] Documentation: add doc for sync_file_get_fence() Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:57:08 -0300 Message-Id: <1467676628-4121-5-git-send-email-gustavo@padovan.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.5.5 In-Reply-To: <1467676628-4121-1-git-send-email-gustavo@padovan.org> References: <1467676628-4121-1-git-send-email-gustavo@padovan.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Gustavo Padovan Document the new function added to sync_file.c v2: Adapt to fence_array Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan --- Documentation/sync_file.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/sync_file.txt b/Documentation/sync_file.txt index e8e2eba..ae2dbad1 100644 --- a/Documentation/sync_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/sync_file.txt @@ -64,6 +64,21 @@ The sync_file fd now can be sent to userspace. If the creation process fail, or the sync_file needs to be released by any other reason fput(sync_file->file) should be used. +Receiving Sync Files from Userspace +----------------------------------- + +When userspace needs to send an in-fence to the driver it pass file descriptor +of the Sync File to the kernel. The kernel then can retrieve the fences +from it. + +Interface: + struct fence *sync_file_get_fence(int fd); + + +The function return a struct fence pointer referencing the fence(s) in the Sync +File. + + References: [1] struct sync_file in include/linux/sync_file.h [2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/sync_file.h -- 2.5.5