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authorIliyan Malchev <malchev@google.com>2011-08-09 14:42:08 -0700
committerDan Willemsen <dwillemsen@nvidia.com>2011-11-30 21:38:58 -0800
commit69b246de276c58e1de0bd8d0095adb83ca12cbc8 (patch)
tree05b96e198de2f6c0cf2b194ee9ae07912883cca8 /include/linux/ion.h
parent2b2f237feabf4f162525c77e597e088bdd41c632 (diff)
ion: minor clean up
-- init rb nodes in ion_handle_create -- in ion_handle_destroy, check that a node belongs to a tree before removing it (safety check, does not happen right now) -- mark as static functions used only inside ion.c -- update comments to ion_share() with a relevant blurb from the implementation -- other minor updates/typo fixes to comments Signed-off-by: Iliyan Malchev <malchev@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/ion.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ion.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ion.h b/include/linux/ion.h
index 111982f48dc5..aed8349279ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/ion.h
+++ b/include/linux/ion.h
@@ -186,9 +186,14 @@ void ion_unmap_dma(struct ion_client *client, struct ion_handle *handle);
* @client: the client
* @handle: the handle to share
*
- * Given a handle, return a buffer which exists in a global name
- * space and can be passed to other clients. Should be passed into ion_import
+ * Given a handle, return a buffer, which exists in a global name
+ * space, and can be passed to other clients. Should be passed into ion_import
* to obtain a new handle for this buffer.
+ *
+ * NOTE: This function does do not an extra reference. The burden is on the
+ * caller to make sure the buffer doesn't go away while it's being passed to
+ * another client. That is, ion_free should not be called on this handle until
+ * the buffer has been imported into the other client.
*/
struct ion_buffer *ion_share(struct ion_client *client,
struct ion_handle *handle);