[PATCH v5 4/5] Documentation: add doc for sync_file_get_fence()

From: Gustavo Padovan
Date: Thu Aug 04 2016 - 22:24:52 EST


From: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Document the new function added to sync_file.c

v2: Adapt to fence_array

Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Christian KÃnig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/sync_file.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/sync_file.txt b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
index e8e2eba..ae2dbad1 100644
--- a/Documentation/sync_file.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sync_file.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,21 @@ The sync_file fd now can be sent to userspace.
If the creation process fail, or the sync_file needs to be released by any
other reason fput(sync_file->file) should be used.

+Receiving Sync Files from Userspace
+-----------------------------------
+
+When userspace needs to send an in-fence to the driver it pass file descriptor
+of the Sync File to the kernel. The kernel then can retrieve the fences
+from it.
+
+Interface:
+ struct fence *sync_file_get_fence(int fd);
+
+
+The function return a struct fence pointer referencing the fence(s) in the Sync
+File.
+
+
References:
[1] struct sync_file in include/linux/sync_file.h
[2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/sync_file.h
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2.5.5