doc: uapi: Add document describing dma-buf semantics
Since there's a lot of confusion around this, document both the rules and the best practices around negotiating, allocating, importing, and using buffers when crossing context/process/device/subsystem boundaries. This ties up all of dma-buf, formats and modifiers, and their usage. Signed-off-by:Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com> Signed-off-by:
Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Reviewed-by:
Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Reviewed-by:
Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@loongson.cn> Acked-by:
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230803154908.105124-4-daniels@collabora.com
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- Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst 8 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst
- Documentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst 7 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/gpu/drm-uapi.rst
- Documentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-alloc-exchange.rst 389 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/userspace-api/dma-buf-alloc-exchange.rst
- Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst 1 addition, 0 deletionsDocumentation/userspace-api/index.rst
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