[PATCH 2/8] drm/ttm: add some general module kerneldoc

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 15:23:36 UTC 2021


On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:01 AM Christian König
<ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For now just a brief description of what TTM is all about.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig at amd.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst     |  3 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
> index 8ca981065e1a..6b7717af4f88 100644
> --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst
> @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ UMA devices.
>  The Translation Table Manager (TTM)
>  ===================================
>
> -TTM design background and information belongs here.
> +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> +   :doc: TTM
>
>  The Graphics Execution Manager (GEM)
>  ====================================
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> index 997c458f68a9..11b59cf03ec3 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_module.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,18 @@
>
>  #include "ttm_module.h"
>
> +/**
> + * DOC: TTM
> + *
> + * TTM is a memory manager for graphics devices with dedicated video memory.

Maybe say "accelerator devices with dedicated memory" since this could
just as easily be applicable to compute only devices.

Alex


> + *
> + * The basic idea is that resources are grouped together in buffer objects of
> + * certain size and TTM handles lifetime, movement and CPU mappings of those
> + * objects.
> + *
> + * TODO: Add more design background and information here.
> + */
> +
>  /**
>   * ttm_prot_from_caching - Modify the page protection according to the
>   * ttm cacing mode
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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