Document the new DMABUF based API.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net Co-developed-by: Nuno Sa nuno.sa@analog.com Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa nuno.sa@analog.com
--- 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.
v8: Renamed dmabuf_api.rst -> iio_dmabuf_api.rst, and updated index.rst whose format changed in iio/togreg.
v11: - "a IIO buffer" -> "an IIO buffer" - Add variable name in IOCTL calls
v12: - "obtained using..." -> "which can be obtained using..." --- Documentation/iio/iio_dmabuf_api.rst | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/iio/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/iio/iio_dmabuf_api.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/iio/iio_dmabuf_api.rst b/Documentation/iio/iio_dmabuf_api.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2836cadbd495 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/iio/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 an 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, which +can be obtained using the IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL() ioctl. + + ``IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_ATTACH_IOCTL(int fd)`` + 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 fd)`` + 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 4c13bfa2865c..9cb4c50cb20d 100644 --- a/Documentation/iio/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/iio/index.rst @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Industrial I/O
iio_configfs iio_devbuf + iio_dmabuf_api iio_tools
Industrial I/O Kernel Drivers