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author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2019-06-20 14:46:15 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2019-06-21 11:48:09 +0200 |
commit | 805dc614d58a8fb069ed079005e591247df85246 (patch) | |
tree | cde126f87592f827771b75cf690e8f4fd2e33e48 /Documentation/gpu | |
parent | b283e92a2315f9368dda010c9633183147fe87e0 (diff) |
drm/prime: Update docs
Yes this is a bit a big patch, but since it's essentially a complete
rewrite of all the prime docs I didn't see how to better split it up.
Changes:
- Consistently point to drm_gem_object_funcs as the preferred hooks,
where applicable.
- Document all the hooks in &drm_driver that lacked kerneldoc.
- Completely new overview section, which now also includes the cleaned
up lifetime/reference counting subchapter. I also mentioned the weak
references in there due to the lookup caches.
- Completely rewritten helper intro section, highlight the
import/export related functionality.
- Polish for all the functions and more cross references.
I also sprinkled a bunch of todos all over.
Most important: 0 code changes in here. The cleanup motivated by
reading and improving all this will follow later on.
v2: Actually update the prime helper docs. Plus add a few FIXMEs that
I won't address right away in subsequent cleanup patches.
v3:
- Split out the function moving. This patch is now exclusively
documentation changes.
- Typos and nits (Sam).
v4: Polish suggestions from Noralf.
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190620124615.24434-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst | 40 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst index c8ebd4f66a6a..b664f054c259 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst @@ -433,43 +433,11 @@ PRIME is the cross device buffer sharing framework in drm, originally created for the OPTIMUS range of multi-gpu platforms. To userspace PRIME buffers are dma-buf based file descriptors. -Overview and Driver Interface ------------------------------ +Overview and Lifetime Rules +--------------------------- -Similar to GEM global names, PRIME file descriptors are also used to -share buffer objects across processes. They offer additional security: -as file descriptors must be explicitly sent over UNIX domain sockets to -be shared between applications, they can't be guessed like the globally -unique GEM names. - -Drivers that support the PRIME API must set the DRIVER_PRIME bit in the -struct :c:type:`struct drm_driver <drm_driver>` -driver_features field, and implement the prime_handle_to_fd and -prime_fd_to_handle operations. - -int (\*prime_handle_to_fd)(struct drm_device \*dev, struct drm_file -\*file_priv, uint32_t handle, uint32_t flags, int \*prime_fd); int -(\*prime_fd_to_handle)(struct drm_device \*dev, struct drm_file -\*file_priv, int prime_fd, uint32_t \*handle); Those two operations -convert a handle to a PRIME file descriptor and vice versa. Drivers must -use the kernel dma-buf buffer sharing framework to manage the PRIME file -descriptors. Similar to the mode setting API PRIME is agnostic to the -underlying buffer object manager, as long as handles are 32bit unsigned -integers. - -While non-GEM drivers must implement the operations themselves, GEM -drivers must use the :c:func:`drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd()` and -:c:func:`drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle()` helper functions. Those -helpers rely on the driver gem_prime_export and gem_prime_import -operations to create a dma-buf instance from a GEM object (dma-buf -exporter role) and to create a GEM object from a dma-buf instance -(dma-buf importer role). - -struct dma_buf \* (\*gem_prime_export)(struct drm_device \*dev, -struct drm_gem_object \*obj, int flags); struct drm_gem_object \* -(\*gem_prime_import)(struct drm_device \*dev, struct dma_buf -\*dma_buf); These two operations are mandatory for GEM drivers that -support PRIME. +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_prime.c + :doc: overview and lifetime rules PRIME Helper Functions ---------------------- |