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cxlflash: Virtual LUN support
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this adapter. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH
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- These tokens are only valid for the process under which they
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were created. The child of a forked process cannot continue
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to use the context id or file descriptor created by its parent.
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to use the context id or file descriptor created by its parent
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(see DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_CLONE for further details).
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- These tokens are only valid for the lifetime of the context and
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the process under which they were created. Once either is
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@@ -193,6 +194,45 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_USER_DIRECT
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treated as a resource handle that is returned to the user. The user
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is then able to use the handle to reference the LUN during I/O.
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DK_CXLFLASH_USER_VIRTUAL
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This ioctl is responsible for transitioning the LUN to virtual mode
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of access and configuring the AFU for virtual access from user space
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on a per-context basis. Additionally, the block size and last logical
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block address (LBA) are returned to the user.
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As mentioned previously, when operating in user space access mode,
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LUNs may be accessed in whole or in part. Only one mode is allowed
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at a time and if one mode is active (outstanding references exist),
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requests to use the LUN in a different mode are denied.
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The AFU is configured for virtual access from user space by adding
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an entry to the AFU's resource handle table. The index of the entry
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is treated as a resource handle that is returned to the user. The
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user is then able to use the handle to reference the LUN during I/O.
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By default, the virtual LUN is created with a size of 0. The user
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would need to use the DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_RESIZE ioctl to adjust the grow
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the virtual LUN to a desired size. To avoid having to perform this
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resize for the initial creation of the virtual LUN, the user has the
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option of specifying a size as part of the DK_CXLFLASH_USER_VIRTUAL
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ioctl, such that when success is returned to the user, the
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resource handle that is provided is already referencing provisioned
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storage. This is reflected by the last LBA being a non-zero value.
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DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_RESIZE
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-----------------------
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This ioctl is responsible for resizing a previously created virtual
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LUN and will fail if invoked upon a LUN that is not in virtual
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mode. Upon success, an updated last LBA is returned to the user
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indicating the new size of the virtual LUN associated with the
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resource handle.
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The partitioning of virtual LUNs is jointly mediated by the cxlflash
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driver and the AFU. An allocation table is kept for each LUN that is
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operating in the virtual mode and used to program a LUN translation
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table that the AFU references when provided with a resource handle.
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DK_CXLFLASH_RELEASE
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This ioctl is responsible for releasing a previously obtained
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@@ -214,6 +254,27 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_DETACH
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success, all "tokens" which had been provided to the user from the
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DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH onward are no longer valid.
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DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_CLONE
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----------------------
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This ioctl is responsible for cloning a previously created
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context to a more recently created context. It exists solely to
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support maintaining user space access to storage after a process
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forks. Upon success, the child process (which invoked the ioctl)
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will have access to the same LUNs via the same resource handle(s)
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and fd2 as the parent, but under a different context.
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Context sharing across processes is not supported with CXL and
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therefore each fork must be met with establishing a new context
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for the child process. This ioctl simplifies the state management
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and playback required by a user in such a scenario. When a process
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forks, child process can clone the parents context by first creating
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a context (via DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH) and then using this ioctl to
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perform the clone from the parent to the child.
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The clone itself is fairly simple. The resource handle and lun
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translation tables are copied from the parent context to the child's
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and then synced with the AFU.
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DK_CXLFLASH_VERIFY
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This ioctl is used to detect various changes such as the capacity of
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