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authorErik Gilling <konkers@android.com>2013-02-28 16:42:58 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-03-04 17:40:08 +0800
commit9d1906e61dda982070e3910a04d9cce050f7f1a4 (patch)
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parentstaging: sync: Add synchronization framework (diff)
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staging: sw_sync: Add cpu based sync driver
Adds a base sync driver that uses the cpu for serialization. Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Cc: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Rob Clark <robclark@gmail.com> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Erik Gilling <konkers@android.com> [jstultz: Add commit message, whitespace fixes and move to staging directory] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
index c95aedeff3f4..cc406cc8b8d1 100644
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+++ b/drivers/staging/android/Kconfig
@@ -81,6 +81,24 @@ config SYNC
drivers. Sync implementations can take advantage of hardware
synchronization built into devices like GPUs.
+config SW_SYNC
+ bool "Software synchronization objects"
+ default n
+ depends on SYNC
+ help
+ A sync object driver that uses a 32bit counter to coordinate
+ syncrhronization. Useful when there is no hardware primitive backing
+ the synchronization.
+
+config SW_SYNC_USER
+ bool "Userspace API for SW_SYNC"
+ default n
+ depends on SW_SYNC
+ help
+ Provides a user space API to the sw sync object.
+ *WARNING* improper use of this can result in deadlocking kernel
+ drivers from userspace.
+
endif # if ANDROID
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