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Commit b533a830 authored by Damian Hobson-Garcia's avatar Damian Hobson-Garcia Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Add uio_dmem_genirq description to UIO documentation

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	</para>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="using uio_dmem_genirq">
<title>Using uio_dmem_genirq for platform devices</title>
	<para>
	In addition to statically allocated memory ranges, they may also be
	a desire to use dynamically allocated regions in a user space driver.
	In particular, being able to access memory made available through the
	dma-mapping API, may be particularly useful.  The
	<varname>uio_dmem_genirq</varname> driver provides a way to accomplish
	this.
	</para>
	<para>
	This driver is used in a similar manner to the
	<varname>"uio_pdrv_genirq"</varname> driver with respect to interrupt
	configuration and handling.
	</para>
	<para>
	Set the <varname>.name</varname> element of
	<varname>struct platform_device</varname> to
	<varname>"uio_dmem_genirq"</varname> to use this driver.
	</para>
	<para>
	When using this driver, fill in the <varname>.platform_data</varname>
	element of <varname>struct platform_device</varname>, which is of type
	<varname>struct uio_dmem_genirq_pdata</varname> and which contains the
	following elements:
	</para>
	<itemizedlist>
	<listitem><varname>struct uio_info uioinfo</varname>: The same
	structure used as the  <varname>uio_pdrv_genirq</varname> platform
	data</listitem>
	<listitem><varname>unsigned int *dynamic_region_sizes</varname>:
	Pointer to list of sizes of dynamic memory regions to be mapped into
	user space.
	</listitem>
	<listitem><varname>unsigned int num_dynamic_regions</varname>:
	Number of elements in <varname>dynamic_region_sizes</varname> array.
	</listitem>
	</itemizedlist>
	<para>
	The dynamic regions defined in the platform data will be appended to
	the <varname> mem[] </varname> array after the platform device
	resources, which implies that the total number of static and dynamic
	memory regions cannot exceed <varname>MAX_UIO_MAPS</varname>.
	</para>
	<para>
	The dynamic memory regions will be allocated when the UIO device file,
	<varname>/dev/uioX</varname> is opened.
	Simiar to static memory resources, the memory region information for
	dynamic regions is then visible via sysfs at
	<varname>/sys/class/uio/uioX/maps/mapY/*</varname>.
	The dynmaic memory regions will be freed when the UIO device file is
	closed. When no processes are holding the device file open, the address
	returned to userspace is DMA_ERROR_CODE.
	</para>
</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter id="userspace_driver" xreflabel="Writing a driver in user space">