aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/include
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorDaniel Vetter2018-04-27 08:17:12 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter2018-05-03 11:49:18 +0200
commit49a53d493e603c594e39dfbc7171917effcaf01e (patch)
tree5b8ae05437399d9306ba2c810c14c0a0e015766e /include
parent90e9965524af18819e634bdd9c5637331ea645f1 (diff)
dma-fence: Make ->wait callback optional
Almost everyone uses dma_fence_default_wait. Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180427061724.28497-6-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dma-fence.h13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence.h b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
index c053d19e1e24..02dba8cd033d 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-fence.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
@@ -191,11 +191,14 @@ struct dma_fence_ops {
/**
* @wait:
*
- * Custom wait implementation, or dma_fence_default_wait.
+ * Custom wait implementation, defaults to dma_fence_default_wait() if
+ * not set.
*
- * Must not be NULL, set to dma_fence_default_wait for default implementation.
- * the dma_fence_default_wait implementation should work for any fence, as long
- * as enable_signaling works correctly.
+ * The dma_fence_default_wait implementation should work for any fence, as long
+ * as @enable_signaling works correctly. This hook allows drivers to
+ * have an optimized version for the case where a process context is
+ * already available, e.g. if @enable_signaling for the general case
+ * needs to set up a worker thread.
*
* Must return -ERESTARTSYS if the wait is intr = true and the wait was
* interrupted, and remaining jiffies if fence has signaled, or 0 if wait
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ struct dma_fence_ops {
* which should be treated as if the fence is signaled. For example a hardware
* lockup could be reported like that.
*
- * This callback is mandatory.
+ * This callback is optional.
*/
signed long (*wait)(struct dma_fence *fence,
bool intr, signed long timeout);