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Oleksandr Andrushchenko 8945c08e2b xen/displif: add ABI for para-virtual display
This is the ABI for the two halves of a para-virtualized
display driver.

This protocol aims to provide a unified protocol which fits more
sophisticated use-cases than a framebuffer device can handle. At the
moment basic functionality is supported with the intention to extend:
  o multiple dynamically allocated/destroyed framebuffers
  o buffers of arbitrary sizes
  o better configuration options including multiple display support

Note: existing fbif can be used together with displif running at the
same time, e.g. on Linux one provides framebuffer and another DRM/KMS

Future extensions to the existing protocol may include:
  o allow display/connector cloning
  o allow allocating objects other than display buffers
  o add planes/overlays support
  o support scaling
  o support rotation

Note, that this protocol doesn't use ring macros for
bi-directional exchange (PV calls/9pfs) bacause:
  o it statically defines the use of a single page
    for the ring buffer
  o it uses direct memory access to ring's contents
    w/o memory copying
  o re-uses the same idea that kbdif/fbif use
    which for this use-case seems to be appropriate

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Rationale for introducing this protocol instead of
using the existing fbif:
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1. In/out event sizes
  o fbif - 40 octets
  o displif - 40 octets
This is only the initial version of the displif protocol
which means that there could be requests which will not fit
(WRT introducing some GPU related functionality
later on). In that case we cannot alter fbif sizes as we need to
be backward compatible an will be forced to handle those
apart of fbif.

2. Shared page
Displif doesn't use anything like struct xenfb_page, but
DEFINE_RING_TYPES(xen_displif, struct xendispl_req, struct
xendispl_resp) which is a better and more common way.
Output events use a shared page which only has in_cons and in_prod
and all the rest is used for incoming events. Here struct xenfb_page
could probably be used as is despite the fact that it only has a half
of a page for incoming events which is only 50 events. (consider
something like 60Hz display)

3. Amount of changes.
fbif only provides XENFB_TYPE_UPDATE and XENFB_TYPE_RESIZE
events, so it looks like it is easier to get fb support into displif
than vice versa. displif at the moment has 6 requests and 1 event,
multiple connector support, etc.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Grytsov <oleksandr_grytsov@epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
2017-05-02 11:13:09 +02:00
arch x86/xen: remove unused static function from smp_pv.c 2017-05-02 11:10:34 +02:00
block Merge branch 'work.uaccess' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-05-01 14:41:04 -07:00
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drivers xen/balloon: decorate PV-only parts with #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_PV 2017-05-02 11:09:56 +02:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.