Pull thermal management update from Zhang Rui:
"Summary:
- of-thermal extension to allow drivers to register and use its
functionality in a better way, without exploiting thermal core.
From Lukasz Majewski.
- Fix a bug in intel_soc_dts_thermal driver which calls a sleep
function in interrupt handler. From Maurice Petallo.
- add a thermal UAPI header file for exporting the thermal generic
netlink information to user-space. From Florian Fainelli.
- First round of refactoring in Exynos driver. Bartlomiej and Lukasz
are attempting to make it lean and easier to understand.
- New thermal driver for Rockchip (rk3288), with support for DT
thermal. From Caesar Wang.
- New thermal driver for Nvidia, Tegra124 SOCTHERM driver, with
support for DT thermal. From Mikko Perttunen.
- New cooling device, based on common clock framework. From Eduardo
Valentin.
- a couple of small fixes in thermal core framework. From Srinivas
Pandruvada, Javi Merino, Luis Henriques.
- Dropping Armada A375-Z1 SoC thermal support as the chip is not in
the market, armada folks decided to drop its support.
- a couple of small fixes and cleanups in int340x thermal driver"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux: (58 commits)
thermal: provide an UAPI header file
Thermal/int340x: Clear the error value of the last acpi_bus_get_device() call
thermal/powerclamp: add id for braswell cpu
thermal: Intel SoC DTS: Don't do thermal zone update inside spin_lock
Thermal: fix platform_no_drv_owner.cocci warnings
Thermal/int340x: avoid unnecessary pointer casting
thermal: int3403: Delete a check before thermal_zone_device_unregister()
thermal/int3400: export uuids
thermal: of: Extend current of-thermal.c code to allow setting emulated temp
thermal: of: Extend of-thermal to export table of trip points
thermal: of: Rename struct __thermal_trip to struct thermal_trip
thermal: of: Extend of-thermal.c to provide check if trip point is valid
thermal: of: Extend of-thermal.c to provide number of trip points
thermal: Fix error path in thermal_init()
thermal: lock the thermal zone when switching governors
thermal: core: ignore invalid trip temperature
thermal: armada: Remove support for A375-Z1 SoC
thermal: rockchip: add driver for thermal
dt-bindings: document Rockchip thermal
thermal: exynos: remove exynos_tmu_data.h include
...
Pull kselftest update from Shuah Khan:
"kselftest updates for 3.19-rc1:
- kcmp test include file cleanup
- kcmp change to build on all architectures
- A light weight kselftest framework that provides a set of
interfaces for tests to use to report results. In addition,
several tests are updated to use the framework.
- A new runtime system size test that prints the amount of RAM that
the currently running system is using"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftest: size: Add size test for Linux kernel
selftests/kcmp: Always try to build the test
selftests/kcmp: Don't include kernel headers
kcmp: Move kcmp.h into uapi
selftests/timers: change test to use ksft framework
selftests/kcmp: change test to use ksft framework
selftests/ipc: change test to use ksft framework
selftests/breakpoints: change test to use ksft framework
selftests: add kselftest framework for uniform test reporting
selftests/user: move test out of Makefile into a shell script
selftests/net: move test out of Makefile into a shell script
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging tree pull request for 3.19-rc1.
We continued to delete more lines than were added, always a good
thing, but not at a huge rate this release, only about 70k lines
removed overall mostly from removing the horrid bcm driver.
Lots of normal staging driver cleanups and fixes all over the place,
well over a thousand of them, the shortlog shows all the horrid
details.
The "contentious" thing here is the movement of the Android binder
code out of staging into the "real" part of the kernel. This is code
that has been stable for a few years now and is working as-is in the
tens of millions of devices with no issues. Yes, the code is horrid,
and the userspace api leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not going
to change due to legacy issues that we have no control over. Because
so many devices and companies rely on this, and the code is stable,
might as well promote it out of staging.
This was all discussed at the Linux Plumbers conference, and everyone
participating agreed that this was the best way forward.
There is work happening to replace the binder code with something new
that is happening right now, but I don't expect to see the results of
that work for another year at the earliest. If that ever happens, and
Android switches over to it, I'll gladly remove this version.
As for maintainers, I'll be glad to maintain this code, I've been
doing it for the past few years with no problems. I'll send a
MAINTAINERS entry for it before 3.19-final is out, still need to talk
to the Google developers about if they are willing to help with it or
not, last I checked they were, which was good.
All of these patches have been in linux-next for a while with no
reported issues"
* tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1382 commits)
Staging: slicoss: Fix long line issues in slicoss.c
staging: rtl8712: remove unnecessary else after return
staging: comedi: change some printk calls to pr_err
staging: rtl8723au: hal: Removed the extra semicolon
lustre: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three function calls
staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings: static function declaration
staging: lustre: fixed sparse warnings related to static declarations
staging: unisys: remove duplicate header
staging: unisys: remove unneeded structure
staging: ft1000 : replace __attribute ((__packed__) with __packed
drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Include "asm/unaligned.h" instead of "access_ok.h" in "rtl819x_BAProc.c"
Drivers:staging:rtl8192e: Fixed checkpatch warning
Drivers:staging:clocking-wizard: Added a newline
staging: clocking-wizard: check for a valid clk_name pointer
staging: rtl8723au: Hal_InitPGData() avoid unnecessary typecasts
staging: rtl8723au: _DisableAnalog(): Avoid zero-init variables unnecessarily
staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _ResetDigitalProcedure1()
staging: rtl8723au: _ResetDigitalProcedure1_92C() reduce code obfuscation
staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB()
staging: rtl8723au: _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB8192C(): Reduce code obfuscation
...
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
offloading of switching and routing to hardware.
This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu
2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers. Thanks to Al Viro
and Herbert Xu.
3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
Alpe.
4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
KaFai Lau.
5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
Pavaluca.
6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.
7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
Nicolas Dichtel.
9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
programs to actually be attached to sockets. From Alexei
Starovoitov.
10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.
11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
Westphal.
12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.
13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
driver, from Thomas Lendacky.
14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.
15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
Klassert.
16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
Dumazet. This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
desired handling of bulk vs. RPC-like traffic.
17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU. From Eric Dumazet.
18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
Dumazet.
19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.
20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
Varadarajan.
21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.
22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
Perry.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb->mac_header
net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
...
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
"virtio: virtio 1.0 support, misc patches
This adds a lot of infrastructure for virtio 1.0 support. Notable
missing pieces: virtio pci, virtio balloon (needs spec extension),
vhost scsi.
Plus, there are some minor fixes in a couple of places.
Note: some net drivers are affected by these patches. David said he's
fine with merging these patches through my tree.
Rusty's on vacation, he acked using my tree for these, too"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (70 commits)
virtio_ccw: finalize_features error handling
virtio_ccw: future-proof finalize_features
virtio_pci: rename virtio_pci -> virtio_pci_common
virtio_pci: update file descriptions and copyright
virtio_pci: split out legacy device support
virtio_pci: setup config vector indirectly
virtio_pci: setup vqs indirectly
virtio_pci: delete vqs indirectly
virtio_pci: use priv for vq notification
virtio_pci: free up vq->priv
virtio_pci: fix coding style for structs
virtio_pci: add isr field
virtio: drop legacy_only driver flag
virtio_balloon: drop legacy_only driver flag
virtio_ccw: rev 1 devices set VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1
virtio: allow finalize_features to fail
virtio_ccw: legacy: don't negotiate rev 1/features
virtio: add API to detect legacy devices
virtio_console: fix sparse warnings
vhost: remove unnecessary forward declarations in vhost.h
...
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Two new dvb frontend drivers: mn88472 and mn88473
- A new driver for some PCIe DVBSky cards
- A new remote controller driver: meson-ir
- One LIRC staging driver got rewritten and promoted to mainstream:
igorplugusb
- A new tuner driver (m88rs6000t)
- The old omap2 media driver got removed from staging. This driver
uses an old DMA API and it is likely broken on recent kernels.
Nobody cared enough to fix it
- Media bus format moved to a separate header, as DRM will also use the
definitions there
- mem2mem_testdev were renamed to vim2m, in order to use the same
naming convention taken by the other virtual test driver (vivid)
- Added a new driver for coda SoC (coda-jpeg)
- The cx88 driver got converted to use videobuf2 core
- Make DMABUF export buffer to work with DMA Scatter/Gather and Vmalloc
cores
- Lots of other fixes, improvements and cleanups on the drivers.
* tag 'media/v3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (384 commits)
[media] mn88473: One function call less in mn88473_init() after error
[media] mn88473: Remove uneeded check before release_firmware()
[media] lirc_zilog: Deletion of unnecessary checks before vfree()
[media] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as img-ir maintainer
[media] img-ir: Don't set driver's module owner
[media] img-ir: Depend on METAG or MIPS or COMPILE_TEST
[media] img-ir/hw: Drop [un]register_decoder declarations
[media] img-ir/hw: Fix potential deadlock stopping timer
[media] img-ir/hw: Always read data to clear buffer
[media] redrat3: ensure dma is setup properly
[media] ddbridge: remove unneeded check before dvb_unregister_device()
[media] si2157: One function call less in si2157_init() after error
[media] tuners: remove uneeded checks before release_firmware()
[media] arm: omap2: rx51-peripherals: fix build warning
[media] stv090x: add an extra protetion against buffer overflow
[media] stv090x: Remove an unreachable code
[media] stv090x: Some whitespace cleanups
[media] em28xx: checkpatch cleanup: whitespaces/new lines cleanups
[media] si2168: add support for firmware files in new format
[media] si2168: debug printout for firmware version
...
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-desc.c
drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/sh_eth.c
Overlapping changes in both conflict cases.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Replace uXX by __uXX and _packed by __attribute((packed))
as seems to be the norm for userspace headers.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
virtio 1.0 makes all memory structures LE, so
we need APIs to conditionally do a byteswap on BE
architectures.
To make it easier to check code statically,
add virtio specific types for multi-byte integers
in memory.
Add low level wrappers that do a byteswap conditionally, these will be
useful e.g. for vhost. Add high level wrappers that
query device endian-ness and act accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
include/linux/thermal.h contains definitions for the Thermal generic
netlink family, but none of the valuable information relevant to
user-space such as the Genl family name, multicast group, version or
command set and data types is exported to user-space.
Export all the relevant generic netlink information to user-space to
make this genl family usable by user-space, and while at it, export
THERMAL_NAME_LENGTH since it limits name length for thermal_hwmon
devices.
Kbuild and MAINTAINERS are also updated accordingly to reflect this new
file: include/uapi/linux/thermal.h.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
kcmp.h appears to be part of the API, it's documented in kcmp(2), and
the selftests/kcmp code uses it. So move it to uapi so it's actually
exported.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
tipc_netlink.h is the user-space header for the new netlink api. It
was accidentally left out of the uapi Kbuild list when the api was
added.
Signed-off-by: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Define MEDIA_BUS_FMT macros (re-using the values defined in the
v4l2_mbus_pixelcode enum) into a separate header file so that they can be
used from the DRM/KMS subsystem without any reference to the V4L2
subsystem.
Then set V4L2_MBUS_FMT definitions to the MEDIA_BUS_FMT values using the
V4L2_MBUS_FROM_MEDIA_BUS_FMT macro.
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
The entries in the Kbuild files are incorrectly sorted.
Matters for aesthetics only.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The makefile for sanitizing kernel headers uses the kbuild file
to determine which files to do. Several networking related headers
were missing. Without these headers iproute2 build would break.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"Here are the target updates for v3.18-rc2 code. These where
originally destined for -rc1, but due to the combination of travel
last week for KVM Forum and my mistake of taking the three week merge
window literally, the pull request slipped.. Apologies for that.
Things where reasonably quiet this round. The highlights include:
- New userspace backend driver (target_core_user.ko) by Shaohua Li
and Andy Grover
- A number of cleanups in target, iscsi-taret and qla_target code
from Joern Engel
- Fix an OOPs related to queue full handling with CHECK_CONDITION
status from Quinn Tran
- Fix to disable TX completion interrupt coalescing in iser-target,
that was causing problems on some hardware
- Fix for PR APTPL metadata handling with demo-mode ACLs
I'm most excited about the new backend driver that uses UIO + shared
memory ring to dispatch I/O and control commands into user-space.
This was probably the most requested feature by users over the last
couple of years, and opens up a new area of development + porting of
existing user-space storage applications to LIO. Thanks to Shaohua +
Andy for making this happen.
Also another honorable mention, a new Xen PV SCSI driver was merged
via the xen/tip.git tree recently, which puts us now at 10 target
drivers in upstream! Thanks to David Vrabel + Juergen Gross for their
work to get this code merged"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (40 commits)
target/file: fix inclusive vfs_fsync_range() end
iser-target: Disable TX completion interrupt coalescing
target: Add force_pr_aptpl device attribute
target: Fix APTPL metadata handling for dynamic MappedLUNs
qla_target: don't delete changed nacls
target/user: Recalculate pad size inside is_ring_space_avail()
tcm_loop: Fixup tag handling
iser-target: Fix smatch warning
target/user: Fix up smatch warnings in tcmu_netlink_event
target: Add a user-passthrough backstore
target: Add documentation on the target userspace pass-through driver
uio: Export definition of struct uio_device
target: Remove unneeded check in sbc_parse_cdb
target: Fix queue full status NULL pointer for SCF_TRANSPORT_TASK_SENSE
qla_target: rearrange struct qla_tgt_prm
qla_target: improve qlt_unmap_sg()
qla_target: make some global functions static
qla_target: remove unused parameter
target: simplify core_tmr_abort_task
target: encapsulate smp_mb__after_atomic()
...
The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter
what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so
might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no
real work that needs to be done to the existing code.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Include fixes for netrom and dsa (Fabian Frederick and Florian
Fainelli)
2) Fix FIXED_PHY support in stmmac, from Giuseppe CAVALLARO.
3) Several SKB use after free fixes (vxlan, openvswitch, vxlan,
ip_tunnel, fou), from Li ROngQing.
4) fec driver PTP support fixes from Luwei Zhou and Nimrod Andy.
5) Use after free in virtio_net, from Michael S Tsirkin.
6) Fix flow mask handling for megaflows in openvswitch, from Pravin B
Shelar.
7) ISDN gigaset and capi bug fixes from Tilman Schmidt.
8) Fix route leak in ip_send_unicast_reply(), from Vasily Averin.
9) Fix two eBPF JIT bugs on x86, from Alexei Starovoitov.
10) TCP_SKB_CB() reorganization caused a few regressions, fixed by Cong
Wang and Eric Dumazet.
11) Don't overwrite end of SKB when parsing malformed sctp ASCONF
chunks, from Daniel Borkmann.
12) Don't call sock_kfree_s() with NULL pointers, this function also has
the side effect of adjusting the socket memory usage. From Cong Wang.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (90 commits)
bna: fix skb->truesize underestimation
net: dsa: add includes for ethtool and phy_fixed definitions
openvswitch: Set flow-key members.
netrom: use linux/uaccess.h
dsa: Fix conversion from host device to mii bus
tipc: fix bug in bundled buffer reception
ipv6: introduce tcp_v6_iif()
sfc: add support for skb->xmit_more
r8152: return -EBUSY for runtime suspend
ipv4: fix a potential use after free in fou.c
ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c
hyperv: Add handling of IP header with option field in netvsc_set_hash()
openvswitch: Create right mask with disabled megaflows
vxlan: fix a free after use
openvswitch: fix a use after free
ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()
ipv4: clean up cookie_v4_check()
ipv4: share tcp_v4_save_options() with cookie_v4_check()
ipv4: call __ip_options_echo() in cookie_v4_check()
atm: simplify lanai.c by using module_pci_driver
...
userspace programs that use eBPF instruction macros need to include two files:
uapi/linux/filter.h and uapi/linux/bpf.h
Move common macro definitions that are shared between classic BPF and eBPF
into uapi/linux/bpf_common.h, so that user app can include only one bpf.h file
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- new IR driver: hix5hd2-ir
- the virtual test driver (vivi) was replaced by vivid, with has an
almost complete set of features to emulate most v4l2 devices and
properly test all sorts of userspace apps
- the as102 driver had several bugs fixed and was properly split into a
frontend and a core driver. With that, it got promoted from staging
into mainstream
- one new CI driver got added for CIMaX SP2/SP2HF (sp2 driver)
- one new frontend driver for Toshiba ISDB-T/ISDB-S demod (tc90522)
- one new PCI driver for ISDB-T/ISDB-S (pt3 driver)
- saa7134 driver got support for go7007-based devices
- added a new PCI driver for Techwell 68xx chipsets (tw68)
- a new platform driver was added (coda)
- new tuner drivers: mxl301rf and qm1d1c0042
- a new DVB USB driver was added for DVBSky S860 & similar devices
- added a new SDR driver (hackrf)
- usbtv got audio support
- several platform drivers are now compiled with COMPILE_TEST
- a series of compiler fixup patches, making sparse/spatch happier with
the media stuff and removing several warnings, especially on those
platform drivers that didn't use to compile on x86
- Support for several new modern devices got added
- lots of other fixes, improvements and cleanups
* tag 'media/v3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (544 commits)
[media] ir-hix5hd2: fix build on c6x arch
[media] pt3: fix DTV FE I2C driver load error paths
Revert "[media] media: em28xx - remove reset_resume interface"
[media] exynos4-is: fix some warnings when compiling on arm64
[media] usb drivers: use %zu instead of %zd
[media] pci drivers: use %zu instead of %zd
[media] dvb-frontends: use %zu instead of %zd
[media] s5p-mfc: Fix several printk warnings
[media] s5p_mfc_opr: Fix warnings
[media] ti-vpe: Fix typecast
[media] s3c-camif: fix dma_addr_t printks
[media] s5p_mfc_opr_v6: get rid of warnings when compiled with 64 bits
[media] s5p_mfc_opr_v5: Fix lots of warnings on x86_64
[media] em28xx: Fix identation
[media] drxd: remove a dead code
[media] saa7146: remove return after BUG()
[media] cx88: remove return after BUG()
[media] cx88: fix cards table CodingStyle
[media] radio-sf16fmr2: declare some structs as static
[media] radio-sf16fmi: declare pnp_attached as static
...
Add a LIO storage engine that presents commands to userspace for execution.
This would allow more complex backstores to be implemented out-of-kernel,
and also make experimentation a-la FUSE (but at the SCSI level -- "SUSE"?)
possible.
It uses a mmap()able UIO device per LUN to share a command ring and data
area. The commands are raw SCSI CDBs and iovs for in/out data. The command
ring is also reused for returning scsi command status and optional sense
data.
This implementation is based on Shaohua Li's earlier version but heavily
modified. Differences include:
* Shared memory allocated by kernel, not locked-down user pages
* Single ring for command request and response
* Offsets instead of embedded pointers
* Generic SCSI CDB passthrough instead of per-cmd specialization in ring
format.
* Uses UIO device instead of anon_file passed in mailbox.
* Optional in-kernel handling of some commands.
The main reason for these differences is to permit greater resiliency
if the user process dies or hangs.
Things not yet implemented (on purpose):
* Zero copy. The data area is flexible enough to allow page flipping or
backend-allocated pages to be used by fabrics, but it's not clear these
are performance wins. Can come later.
* Out-of-order command completion by userspace. Possible to add by just
allowing userspace to change cmd_id in rsp cmd entries, but currently
not supported.
* No locks between kernel cmd submission and completion routines. Sounds
like it's possible, but this can come later.
* Sparse allocation of mmaped area. Current code vmallocs the whole thing.
If the mapped area was larger and not fully mapped then the driver would
have more freedom to change cmd and data area sizes based on demand.
Current code open issues:
* The use of idrs may be overkill -- we maybe can replace them with a
simple counter to generate cmd_ids, and a hash table to get a cmd_id's
associated pointer.
* Use of a free-running counter for cmd ring instead of explicit modulo
math. This would require power-of-2 cmd ring size.
(Add kconfig depends NET - Randy)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
