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This document serves as a guide for device drivers writers on what the
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sync_file API is, and how drivers can support it. Sync file is the carrier of
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-the fences(struct fence) that needs to synchronized between drivers or across
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-process boundaries.
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+the fences(struct fence) that are needed to synchronize between drivers or
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+across process boundaries.
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The sync_file API is meant to be used to send and receive fence information
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to/from userspace. It enables userspace to do explicit fencing, where instead
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in-fences and out-fences
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Sync files can go either to or from userspace. When a sync_file is sent from
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the driver to userspace we call the fences it contains 'out-fences'. They are
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related to a buffer that the driver is processing or is going to process, so
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-the driver an create out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
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+the driver creates an out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(),
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when it has finished using (or processing) that buffer. Out-fences are fences
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that the driver creates.
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