Re: [PATCH 5/8] xen/gntdev: Add initial support for dma-buf UAPI

From: Oleksandr Andrushchenko
Date: Wed May 30 2018 - 02:53:05 EST


On 05/30/2018 01:34 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 05/25/2018 11:33 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:

+/*
+ * Create a dma-buf [1] from grant references @refs of count @count provided
+ * by the foreign domain @domid with flags @flags.
+ *
+ * By default dma-buf is backed by system memory pages, but by providing
+ * one of the GNTDEV_DMA_FLAG_XXX flags it can also be created as
+ * a DMA write-combine or coherent buffer, e.g. allocated with dma_alloc_wc/
+ * dma_alloc_coherent.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if dma-buf was successfully created and the corresponding
+ * dma-buf's file descriptor is returned in @fd.
+ *
+ * [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst

Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst.

Indeed ;)
-boris
Thank you,
Oleksandr