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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-08-29 08:39:32 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-09-09 09:21:50 -0300
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[media] dtv-core.rst: move DTV ringbuffer notes to kAPI doc
Instead of keeping those notes at the file on a non-structured
way, move them to dtv-core.rst, using the proper ReST tags.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/media')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst38
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst b/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst
index 41df9f144fcb..a3c4642eabfc 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/kapi/dtv-core.rst
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ Digital TV Common functions
 
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_math.h
 
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
-
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
 
 
@@ -18,6 +16,42 @@ Digital TV Common functions
 .. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.h
    :export: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
 
+Digital TV Ring buffer
+----------------------
+
+Those routines implement ring buffers used to handle digital TV data and
+copy it from/to userspace.
+
+.. note::
+
+  1) For performance reasons read and write routines don't check buffer sizes
+     and/or number of bytes free/available. This has to be done before these
+     routines are called. For example:
+
+   .. code-block:: c
+
+        /* write @buflen: bytes */
+        free = dvb_ringbuffer_free(rbuf);
+        if (free >= buflen)
+                count = dvb_ringbuffer_write(rbuf, buffer, buflen);
+        else
+                /* do something */
+
+        /* read min. 1000, max. @bufsize: bytes */
+        avail = dvb_ringbuffer_avail(rbuf);
+        if (avail >= 1000)
+                count = dvb_ringbuffer_read(rbuf, buffer, min(avail, bufsize));
+        else
+                /* do something */
+
+  2) If there is exactly one reader and one writer, there is no need
+     to lock read or write operations.
+     Two or more readers must be locked against each other.
+     Flushing the buffer counts as a read operation.
+     Resetting the buffer counts as a read and write operation.
+     Two or more writers must be locked against each other.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_ringbuffer.h
 
 
 Digital TV Frontend kABI