[PATCH 5/8] xen/gntdev: Add initial support for dma-buf UAPI

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 05/25/2018 11:33 AM, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:

>  
> +/*
> + * Create a dma-buf [1] from grant references @refs of count @count provided
> + * by the foreign domain @domid with flags @flags.
> + *
> + * By default dma-buf is backed by system memory pages, but by providing
> + * one of the GNTDEV_DMA_FLAG_XXX flags it can also be created as
> + * a DMA write-combine or coherent buffer, e.g. allocated with dma_alloc_wc/
> + * dma_alloc_coherent.
> + *
> + * Returns 0 if dma-buf was successfully created and the corresponding
> + * dma-buf's file descriptor is returned in @fd.
> + *
> + * [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst


Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst.


-boris