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dma-buf: add initial vmap documentation

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>

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Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
··· 293 293 Note that these calls need to always succeed. The exporter needs to complete 294 294 any preparations that might fail in begin_cpu_access. 295 295 296 + For some cases the overhead of kmap can be too high, a vmap interface 297 + is introduced. This interface should be used very carefully, as vmalloc 298 + space is a limited resources on many architectures. 299 + 300 + Interfaces: 301 + void *dma_buf_vmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf) 302 + void dma_buf_vunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, void *vaddr) 303 + 304 + The vmap call can fail if there is no vmap support in the exporter, or if it 305 + runs out of vmalloc space. Fallback to kmap should be implemented. 306 + 296 307 3. Finish access 297 308 298 309 When the importer is done accessing the range specified in begin_cpu_access,