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diff --git a/Documentation/sync_file.txt b/Documentation/sync_file.txt index eaf8297dbca2..e8e2ebafe5fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/sync_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/sync_file.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ This document serves as a guide for device drivers writers on what the sync_file API is, and how drivers can support it. Sync file is the carrier of -the fences(struct fence) that needs to synchronized between drivers or across -process boundaries. +the fences(struct fence) that are needed to synchronize between drivers or +across process boundaries. The sync_file API is meant to be used to send and receive fence information to/from userspace. It enables userspace to do explicit fencing, where instead @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ in-fences and out-fences Sync files can go either to or from userspace. When a sync_file is sent from the driver to userspace we call the fences it contains 'out-fences'. They are related to a buffer that the driver is processing or is going to process, so -the driver an create out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(), +the driver creates an out-fence to be able to notify, through fence_signal(), when it has finished using (or processing) that buffer. Out-fences are fences that the driver creates. |