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Daniel Stone 504245a5ab doc: uapi: Add document describing dma-buf semantics
Since there's a lot of confusion around this, document both the rules
and the best practices around negotiating, allocating, importing, and
using buffers when crossing context/process/device/subsystem boundaries.

This ties up all of dma-buf, formats and modifiers, and their usage.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230803154908.105124-4-daniels@collabora.com
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