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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-06-12 19:52:45 +0200 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-14 22:21:11 +0200 |
commit | ab42b818954c040fa13639dc031d8541edcecb4b (patch) | |
tree | baf9142b53b039fa58ca66af479156f4886c9cc8 /Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt | |
parent | docs: fault-injection: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst (diff) | |
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docs: fb: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Also, removed the Maintained by, as requested by Geert.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt b/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 748328370250..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/fb/deferred_io.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,75 +0,0 @@ -Deferred IO ------------ - -Deferred IO is a way to delay and repurpose IO. It uses host memory as a -buffer and the MMU pagefault as a pretrigger for when to perform the device -IO. The following example may be a useful explanation of how one such setup -works: - -- userspace app like Xfbdev mmaps framebuffer -- deferred IO and driver sets up fault and page_mkwrite handlers -- userspace app tries to write to mmaped vaddress -- we get pagefault and reach fault handler -- fault handler finds and returns physical page -- we get page_mkwrite where we add this page to a list -- schedule a workqueue task to be run after a delay -- app continues writing to that page with no additional cost. this is - the key benefit. -- the workqueue task comes in and mkcleans the pages on the list, then - completes the work associated with updating the framebuffer. this is - the real work talking to the device. -- app tries to write to the address (that has now been mkcleaned) -- get pagefault and the above sequence occurs again - -As can be seen from above, one benefit is roughly to allow bursty framebuffer -writes to occur at minimum cost. Then after some time when hopefully things -have gone quiet, we go and really update the framebuffer which would be -a relatively more expensive operation. - -For some types of nonvolatile high latency displays, the desired image is -the final image rather than the intermediate stages which is why it's okay -to not update for each write that is occurring. - -It may be the case that this is useful in other scenarios as well. Paul Mundt -has mentioned a case where it is beneficial to use the page count to decide -whether to coalesce and issue SG DMA or to do memory bursts. - -Another one may be if one has a device framebuffer that is in an usual format, -say diagonally shifting RGB, this may then be a mechanism for you to allow -apps to pretend to have a normal framebuffer but reswizzle for the device -framebuffer at vsync time based on the touched pagelist. - -How to use it: (for applications) ---------------------------------- -No changes needed. mmap the framebuffer like normal and just use it. - -How to use it: (for fbdev drivers) ----------------------------------- -The following example may be helpful. - -1. Setup your structure. Eg: - -static struct fb_deferred_io hecubafb_defio = { - .delay = HZ, - .deferred_io = hecubafb_dpy_deferred_io, -}; - -The delay is the minimum delay between when the page_mkwrite trigger occurs -and when the deferred_io callback is called. The deferred_io callback is -explained below. - -2. Setup your deferred IO callback. Eg: -static void hecubafb_dpy_deferred_io(struct fb_info *info, - struct list_head *pagelist) - -The deferred_io callback is where you would perform all your IO to the display -device. You receive the pagelist which is the list of pages that were written -to during the delay. You must not modify this list. This callback is called -from a workqueue. - -3. Call init - info->fbdefio = &hecubafb_defio; - fb_deferred_io_init(info); - -4. Call cleanup - fb_deferred_io_cleanup(info); |