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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-23 18:58:18 -0800
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Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.11-less-shouty' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "This is the main drm pull request for v4.11. Nothing too major, the tinydrm and mmu-less support should make writing smaller drivers easier for some of the simpler platforms, and there are a bunch of documentation updates. Intel grew displayport MST audio support which is hopefully useful to people, and FBC is on by default for GEN9+ (so people know where to look for regressions). AMDGPU has a lot of fixes that would like new firmware files installed for some GPUs. Other than that it's pretty scattered all over. I may have a follow up pull request as I know BenH has a bunch of AST rework and fixes and I'd like to get those in once they've been tested by AST, and I've got at least one pull request I'm just trying to get the author to fix up. Core: - drm_mm reworked - Connector list locking and iterators - Documentation updates - Format handling rework - MMU-less support for fbdev helpers - drm_crtc_from_index helper - Core CRC API - Remove drm_framebuffer_unregister_private - Debugfs cleanup - EDID/Infoframe fixes - Release callback - Tinydrm support (smaller drivers for simple hw) panel: - Add support for some new simple panels i915: - FBC by default for gen9+ - Shared dpll cleanups and docs - GEN8 powerdomain cleanup - DMC support on GLK - DP MST audio support - HuC loading support - GVT init ordering fixes - GVT IOMMU workaround fix amdgpu/radeon: - Power/clockgating improvements - Preliminary SR-IOV support - TTM buffer priority and eviction fixes - SI DPM quirks removed due to firmware fixes - Powerplay improvements - VCE/UVD powergating fixes - Cleanup SI GFX code to match CI/VI - Support for > 2 displays on 3/5 crtc asics - SI headless fixes nouveau: - Rework securre boot code in prep for GP10x secure boot - Channel recovery improvements - Initial power budget code - MMU rework preperation vmwgfx: - Bunch of fixes and cleanups exynos: - Runtime PM support for MIC driver - Cleanups to use atomic helpers - UHD Support for TM2/TM2E boards - Trigger mode fix for Rinato board etnaviv: - Shader performance fix - Command stream validator fixes - Command buffer suballocator rockchip: - CDN DisplayPort support - IOMMU support for arm64 platform imx-drm: - Fix i.MX5 TV encoder probing - Remove lower fb size limits msm: - Support for HW cursor on MDP5 devices - DSI encoder cleanup - GPU DT bindings cleanup sti: - stih410 cleanups - Create fbdev at binding - HQVDP fixes - Remove stih416 chip functionality - DVI/HDMI mode selection fixes - FPS statistic reporting omapdrm: - IRQ code cleanup dwi-hdmi bridge: - Cleanups and fixes adv-bridge: - Updates for nexus sii8520 bridge: - Add interlace mode support - Rework HDMI and lots of fixes qxl: - probing/teardown cleanups ZTE drm: - HDMI audio via SPDIF interface - Video Layer overlay plane support - Add TV encoder output device atmel-hlcdc: - Rework fbdev creation logic tegra: - OF node fix fsl-dcu: - Minor fixes mali-dp: - Assorted fixes sunxi: - Minor fix" [ This was the "fixed" pull, that still had build warnings due to people not even having build tested the result. I'm not a happy camper I've fixed the things I noticed up in this merge. - Linus ] * tag 'drm-for-v4.11-less-shouty' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1177 commits) lib/Kconfig: make PRIME_NUMBERS not user selectable drm/tinydrm: helpers: Properly fix backlight dependency drm/tinydrm: mipi-dbi: Fix field width specifier warning drm/tinydrm: mipi-dbi: Silence: ‘cmd’ may be used uninitialized drm/sti: fix build warnings in sti_drv.c and sti_vtg.c files drm/amd/powerplay: fix PSI feature on Polars12 drm/amdgpu: refuse to reserve io mem for split VRAM buffers drm/ttm: fix use-after-free races in vm fault handling drm/tinydrm: Add support for Multi-Inno MI0283QT display dt-bindings: Add Multi-Inno MI0283QT binding dt-bindings: display/panel: Add common rotation property of: Add vendor prefix for Multi-Inno drm/tinydrm: Add MIPI DBI support drm/tinydrm: Add helper functions drm: Add DRM support for tiny LCD displays drm/amd/amdgpu: post card if there is real hw resetting performed drm/nouveau/tmr: provide backtrace when a timeout is hit drm/nouveau/pci/g92: Fix rearm drm/nouveau/drm/therm/fan: add a fallback if no fan control is specified in the vbios drm/nouveau/hwmon: expose power_max and power_crit ..
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@@ -17,6 +17,98 @@ shared or exclusive fence(s) associated with the buffer.
Shared DMA Buffers
------------------
+This document serves as a guide to device-driver writers on what is the dma-buf
+buffer sharing API, how to use it for exporting and using shared buffers.
+
+Any device driver which wishes to be a part of DMA buffer sharing, can do so as
+either the 'exporter' of buffers, or the 'user' or 'importer' of buffers.
+
+Say a driver A wants to use buffers created by driver B, then we call B as the
+exporter, and A as buffer-user/importer.
+
+The exporter
+
+ - implements and manages operations in :c:type:`struct dma_buf_ops
+ <dma_buf_ops>` for the buffer,
+ - allows other users to share the buffer by using dma_buf sharing APIs,
+ - manages the details of buffer allocation, wrapped int a :c:type:`struct
+ dma_buf <dma_buf>`,
+ - decides about the actual backing storage where this allocation happens,
+ - and takes care of any migration of scatterlist - for all (shared) users of
+ this buffer.
+
+The buffer-user
+
+ - is one of (many) sharing users of the buffer.
+ - doesn't need to worry about how the buffer is allocated, or where.
+ - and needs a mechanism to get access to the scatterlist that makes up this
+ buffer in memory, mapped into its own address space, so it can access the
+ same area of memory. This interface is provided by :c:type:`struct
+ dma_buf_attachment <dma_buf_attachment>`.
+
+Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have a
+'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs.
+
+Userspace Interface Notes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Mostly a DMA buffer file descriptor is simply an opaque object for userspace,
+and hence the generic interface exposed is very minimal. There's a few things to
+consider though:
+
+- Since kernel 3.12 the dma-buf FD supports the llseek system call, but only
+ with offset=0 and whence=SEEK_END|SEEK_SET. SEEK_SET is supported to allow
+ the usual size discover pattern size = SEEK_END(0); SEEK_SET(0). Every other
+ llseek operation will report -EINVAL.
+
+ If llseek on dma-buf FDs isn't support the kernel will report -ESPIPE for all
+ cases. Userspace can use this to detect support for discovering the dma-buf
+ size using llseek.
+
+- In order to avoid fd leaks on exec, the FD_CLOEXEC flag must be set
+ on the file descriptor. This is not just a resource leak, but a
+ potential security hole. It could give the newly exec'd application
+ access to buffers, via the leaked fd, to which it should otherwise
+ not be permitted access.
+
+ The problem with doing this via a separate fcntl() call, versus doing it
+ atomically when the fd is created, is that this is inherently racy in a
+ multi-threaded app[3]. The issue is made worse when it is library code
+ opening/creating the file descriptor, as the application may not even be
+ aware of the fd's.
+
+ To avoid this problem, userspace must have a way to request O_CLOEXEC
+ flag be set when the dma-buf fd is created. So any API provided by
+ the exporting driver to create a dmabuf fd must provide a way to let
+ userspace control setting of O_CLOEXEC flag passed in to dma_buf_fd().
+
+- Memory mapping the contents of the DMA buffer is also supported. See the
+ discussion below on `CPU Access to DMA Buffer Objects`_ for the full details.
+
+- The DMA buffer FD is also pollable, see `Fence Poll Support`_ below for
+ details.
+
+Basic Operation and Device DMA Access
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+ :doc: dma buf device access
+
+CPU Access to DMA Buffer Objects
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+ :doc: cpu access
+
+Fence Poll Support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+ :doc: fence polling
+
+Kernel Functions and Structures Reference
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
:export: