From patchwork Tue Dec 19 17:50:09 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Paul Cercueil X-Patchwork-Id: 13498776 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54190C46CA2 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5E410E1C1; Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aposti.net (aposti.net [89.234.176.197]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F70110E1C1 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:51:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=crapouillou.net; s=mail; t=1703008226; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=6SosLHUfbvBusyQrjhEdH6qlujZTce4ql106/+fLWzw=; b=J9fAlELLwr4u9tQx12Md08M19jXx7ynqeRbwh2bn3D4jBBjrFqmsfNIv7OLIFcqqSLmdeN QC516M58Q7HMEZjPI/cYNl+yjV+mqFJMFElgpPlX/YGHL1beQenrhYuznSawwdxC2Tc7Iw FPKphSbHxxtpXJYnuOdVN8jzVvyOL/0= From: Paul Cercueil To: Jonathan Cameron , Lars-Peter Clausen , Sumit Semwal , =?utf-8?q?Christian_K=C3=B6nig?= , Vinod Koul , Jonathan Corbet Subject: [PATCH v5 8/8] Documentation: iio: Document high-speed DMABUF based API Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:50:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20231219175009.65482-9-paul@crapouillou.net> In-Reply-To: <20231219175009.65482-1-paul@crapouillou.net> References: <20231219175009.65482-1-paul@crapouillou.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam: Yes X-BeenThere: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Paul Cercueil , Michael Hennerich , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org, =?utf-8?q?Nuno_S=C3=A1?= , dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" Document the new DMABUF based API. Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil --- v2: - Explicitly state that the new interface is optional and is not implemented by all drivers. - The IOCTLs can now only be called on the buffer FD returned by IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL. - Move the page up a bit in the index since it is core stuff and not driver-specific. v3: Update the documentation to reflect the new API. v5: Use description lists for the documentation of the three new IOCTLs instead of abusing subsections. --- Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/iio/index.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst diff --git a/Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst b/Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1cd6cd51a582 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================================== +High-speed DMABUF interface for IIO +=================================== + +1. Overview +=========== + +The Industrial I/O subsystem supports access to buffers through a +file-based interface, with read() and write() access calls through the +IIO device's dev node. + +It additionally supports a DMABUF based interface, where the userspace +can attach DMABUF objects (externally created) to a IIO buffer, and +subsequently use them for data transfers. + +A userspace application can then use this interface to share DMABUF +objects between several interfaces, allowing it to transfer data in a +zero-copy fashion, for instance between IIO and the USB stack. + +The userspace application can also memory-map the DMABUF objects, and +access the sample data directly. The advantage of doing this vs. the +read() interface is that it avoids an extra copy of the data between the +kernel and userspace. This is particularly useful for high-speed devices +which produce several megabytes or even gigabytes of data per second. +It does however increase the userspace-kernelspace synchronization +overhead, as the DMA_BUF_SYNC_START and DMA_BUF_SYNC_END IOCTLs have to +be used for data integrity. + +2. User API +=========== + +As part of this interface, three new IOCTLs have been added. These three +IOCTLs have to be performed on the IIO buffer's file descriptor, +obtained using the IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL() ioctl. + + ``IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_ATTACH_IOCTL(int)`` + Attach the DMABUF object, identified by its file descriptor, to the + IIO buffer. Returns zero on success, and a negative errno value on + error. + + ``IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_DETACH_IOCTL(int)`` + Detach the given DMABUF object, identified by its file descriptor, + from the IIO buffer. Returns zero on success, and a negative errno + value on error. + + Note that closing the IIO buffer's file descriptor will + automatically detach all previously attached DMABUF objects. + + ``IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_ENQUEUE_IOCTL(struct iio_dmabuf *iio_dmabuf)`` + Enqueue a previously attached DMABUF object to the buffer queue. + Enqueued DMABUFs will be read from (if output buffer) or written to + (if input buffer) as long as the buffer is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/iio/index.rst b/Documentation/iio/index.rst index 1b7292c58cd0..3eae8fcb1938 100644 --- a/Documentation/iio/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/iio/index.rst @@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Industrial I/O iio_configfs + dmabuf_api + ep93xx_adc bno055