Document the new DMABUF based API.
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil paul@crapouillou.net Cc: Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
--- 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. --- Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/iio/index.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 61 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..4d70372c7ebd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/iio/dmabuf_api.rst @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +.. 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