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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-05-22 13:34:38 +0100
committerSumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>2012-05-25 12:51:11 +0530
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dma-buf: add initial vmap documentation
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
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@@ -293,6 +293,17 @@ Access to a dma_buf from the kernel context involves three steps:
Note that these calls need to always succeed. The exporter needs to complete
any preparations that might fail in begin_cpu_access.
+ For some cases the overhead of kmap can be too high, a vmap interface
+ is introduced. This interface should be used very carefully, as vmalloc
+ space is a limited resources on many architectures.
+
+ Interfaces:
+ void *dma_buf_vmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf)
+ void dma_buf_vunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, void *vaddr)
+
+ The vmap call can fail if there is no vmap support in the exporter, or if it
+ runs out of vmalloc space. Fallback to kmap should be implemented.
+
3. Finish access
When the importer is done accessing the range specified in begin_cpu_access,
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