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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2020-12-11 16:58:40 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2020-12-16 11:28:34 +0100
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parentdrm/vc4: hdmi: Enable 10/12 bpc output (diff)
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dma-buf: Remove kmap kerneldoc vestiges
Also try to clarify a bit when dma_buf_begin/end_cpu_access should be called. Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201211155843.3348718-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/dma-buf.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dma-buf.h25
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
index cf72699cb2bc..7eca37c8b10c 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
@@ -183,24 +183,19 @@ struct dma_buf_ops {
* @begin_cpu_access:
*
* This is called from dma_buf_begin_cpu_access() and allows the
- * exporter to ensure that the memory is actually available for cpu
- * access - the exporter might need to allocate or swap-in and pin the
- * backing storage. The exporter also needs to ensure that cpu access is
- * coherent for the access direction. The direction can be used by the
- * exporter to optimize the cache flushing, i.e. access with a different
+ * exporter to ensure that the memory is actually coherent for cpu
+ * access. The exporter also needs to ensure that cpu access is coherent
+ * for the access direction. The direction can be used by the exporter
+ * to optimize the cache flushing, i.e. access with a different
* direction (read instead of write) might return stale or even bogus
* data (e.g. when the exporter needs to copy the data to temporary
* storage).
*
- * This callback is optional.
+ * Note that this is both called through the DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC IOCTL
+ * command for userspace mappings established through @mmap, and also
+ * for kernel mappings established with @vmap.
*
- * FIXME: This is both called through the DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC command
- * from userspace (where storage shouldn't be pinned to avoid handing
- * de-factor mlock rights to userspace) and for the kernel-internal
- * users of the various kmap interfaces, where the backing storage must
- * be pinned to guarantee that the atomic kmap calls can succeed. Since
- * there's no in-kernel users of the kmap interfaces yet this isn't a
- * real problem.
+ * This callback is optional.
*
* Returns:
*
@@ -216,9 +211,7 @@ struct dma_buf_ops {
*
* This is called from dma_buf_end_cpu_access() when the importer is
* done accessing the CPU. The exporter can use this to flush caches and
- * unpin any resources pinned in @begin_cpu_access.
- * The result of any dma_buf kmap calls after end_cpu_access is
- * undefined.
+ * undo anything else done in @begin_cpu_access.
*
* This callback is optional.
*