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authorDmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>2022-10-17 19:22:27 +0200
committerDmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>2022-10-18 00:21:53 +0200
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parentdma-buf: Move dma_buf_mmap() to dynamic locking specification (diff)
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dma-buf: Document dynamic locking convention
Add documentation for the dynamic locking convention. The documentation tells dma-buf API users when they should take the reservation lock and when not. Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221017172229.42269-20-dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com
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@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ DMA Buffer ioctls
.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/dma-buf.h
+DMA-BUF locking convention
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c
+ :doc: locking convention
+
Kernel Functions and Structures Reference
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~