[RFC] dma-buf: Implement test module

Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom at vmware.com
Thu Dec 12 11:34:28 PST 2013


On 12/12/2013 03:36 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> This is a simple test module that can be used to allocate, export and
> delete DMA-BUF objects. It can be used to test DMA-BUF sharing in
> systems that lack a real second driver.
>
>

Looks nice. I wonder whether this could be extended to create a 
"streaming" dma-buf from a user space mapping. That could be used as a 
generic way to implement streaming (user) buffer objects, rather than to 
add explicit support for those in, for example, TTM.

/Thomas


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