[git pull] dma-buf tree

[Dave Airlie]

Hi Linus,

This isn't the drm merge, however a few projects have been working 
together on a buffer sharing mechanism for kernel drivers, the maim
interested parties are the Linaro/ARM SoC folks, V4L, DRM, and fbdev.
Sumit Semwal wrote the code, and its been reviewed on various lists a fair 
few times.

Now we've all agreed that the initial implementation is a good baseline 
for us to move forward on, but its messy working with others when the core 
code is out of tree. So we'd like to merge the core dma-buf code now so we 
can all build on top of it for 3.4. I know some people would say we 
shouldn't merge things with no users, but it will really make our lives 
easier going forward to get this baseline into the tree.

Currently I've got most of a drm inter-driver buffer sharing mechanism 
built on top and there is also got a v4l consumer built. The code doesn't 
introduce any new userspace interfaces, its purely a kernel internal 
layer, that the consumer/exported layers like drm/v4l will plug into to 
offer services.

Dave.
 
The following changes since commit 805a6af8dba5dfdd35ec35dc52ec0122400b2610:

  Linux 3.2 (2012-01-04 15:55:44 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:
  git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux dma-buf-merge

Sumit Semwal (3):
      dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism
      dma-buf: Documentation for buffer sharing framework
      dma-buf: mark EXPERIMENTAL for 1st release.

 Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt |  224 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/base/Kconfig              |   11 ++
 drivers/base/Makefile             |    1 +
 drivers/base/dma-buf.c            |  291 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/dma-buf.h           |  176 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 703 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
 create mode 100644 drivers/base/dma-buf.c
 create mode 100644 include/linux/dma-buf.h