Marvell folks tell me this is a debugging event that the driver doesn't
need to handle, but on 8997 w/ firmware 16.68.1.p97, I see several of
these sorts of messages at (for instance) boot time:
[ 13.825848] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: event: unknown event id: 0x63
[ 14.838561] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: event: unknown event id: 0x63
[ 14.850397] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: event: unknown event id: 0x63
[ 32.529923] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: event: unknown event id: 0x63
Let's handle this "event" with a much lower verbosity.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
In mwifiex_delay_for_sleep_cookie(), we're looping and waiting for the
PCIe endpoint to write a magic value back to memory, to signal that it
has finished going to sleep. We're not letting the compiler know that
this might change underneath our feet though. Let's do that, for good
hygiene.
I'm not aware of this fixing any concrete problems. I also give no
guarantee that this loop is actually correct in any other way, but at
least this looks like an improvement to me.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
The following sequence occurs when using IEEE power-save on 8997:
(a) driver sees SLEEP event
(b) driver issues SLEEP CONFIRM
(c) driver recevies CMD interrupt; within the interrupt processing loop,
we do (d) and (e):
(d) wait for FW sleep cookie (and often time out; it takes a while), FW
is putting card into low power mode
(e) re-check PCIE_HOST_INT_STATUS register; quit loop with 0 value
But at (e), no one actually signaled an interrupt (i.e., we didn't check
adapter->int_status). And what's more, because the card is going to
sleep, this register read appears to take a very long time in some cases
-- 3 milliseconds in my case!
Now, I propose that (e) is completely unnecessary. If there were any
additional interrupts signaled after the start of this loop, then the
interrupt handler would have set adapter->int_status to non-zero and
queued more work for the main loop -- and we'd catch it on the next
iteration of the main loop.
So this patch drops all the looping/re-reading of PCIE_HOST_INT_STATUS,
which avoids the problematic (and slow) register read in step (e).
Incidentally, this is a very similar issue to the one fixed in commit
ec815dd2a5 ("mwifiex: prevent register accesses after host is
sleeping"), except that the register read is just very slow instead of
fatal in this case.
Tested on 8997 in both MSI and (though not technically supported at the
moment) MSI-X mode.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Depending on system factors (e.g., the PCIe link PM state), the first
read to wake up the Wifi firmware can take a long time. There is no
reason to use a (blocking, non-posted) read at this point, so let's just
use a write instead. Write vs. read doesn't matter functionality-wise --
it's just a dummy operation. But let's make sure to re-write with the
correct "ready" signature, since we check for that in other parts of the
driver.
This has been shown to decrease the time spent blocking in this function
on RK3399.
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This is needed for WiFi to work e.g. on DIR-615 rev.H1 which got
external RF power amplifiers connected to the WiSoC.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Simple patch to correct HT20/HT40 filter setting.
Tested with Rt3290, Rt3352 and Rt5350
Signed-off-by: Serge Vasilugin <vasilugin@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Since rt2800pci update beacon settings asynchronously from
tbtt tasklet, without beacon_skb_mutex protection, number of
currently active beacons entries can be different than
number pointed by rt2x00dev->intf_beaconing. Remove warning
about that inconsistency.
Reported-by: evaxige@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
We may want to use Open Firmware for other devices than just SDIO ones.
In future we may want to support more Broadcom properties so there is
really no reason for such limitation.
Call brcmf_of_probe for all kind of devices & move extra conditions to
the body of that funcion.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Function lbs_cmd_802_11_sleep_params() always return 0, even if the call
to lbs_cmd_with_response() fails. In this case, the parameter @sp will
keep uninitialized. Because the return value is 0, its caller (say
lbs_sleepparams_read()) will not detect the error, and will copy the
uninitialized stack memory to user sapce, resulting in stack information
leak. To avoid the bug, this patch returns variable ret (which takes
the return value of lbs_cmd_with_response()) instead of 0.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188451
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
In commit c93ac39da0 ("rtlwifi: Remove some redundant code), a goto
statement was inadvertently left in the code.
Fixes: c93ac39da0 ("rtlwifi: Remove some redundant code)
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Similar to commit fcd2042e8d ("mwifiex: printk() overflow with 32-byte
SSIDs"), we failed to account for the existence of 32-char SSIDs in our
debugfs code. Unlike in that case though, we zeroed out the containing
struct first, and I'm pretty sure we're guaranteed to have some padding
after the 'ssid.ssid' and 'ssid.ssid_len' fields (the struct is 33 bytes
long).
So, this is the difference between:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mwifiex/mlan0/info
...
essid="0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef "
...
and the correct output:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mwifiex/mlan0/info
...
essid="0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"
...
Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
During bands setup we disable all channels that firmware doesn't support
in the current regulatory setup. If we do this before wiphy_register
it will result in copying set flags (including IEEE80211_CHAN_DISABLED)
to the orig_flags which is supposed to be persistent. We don't want this
as regulatory change may result in enabling some channels. We shouldn't
mess with orig_flags then (by changing them or ignoring them) so it's
better to just take care of their proper values.
This patch cleanups code a bit (by taking orig_flags more seriously) and
allows further improvements like disabling really unavailable channels.
We will need that e.g. if some frequencies should be disabled for good
due to hardware setup (design).
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
During init we take care of regulatory stuff by disabling all
unavailable channels (see brcmf_construct_chaninfo) so this predisabling
them is not really required (and this patch won't change any behavior).
It will on the other hand allow more detailed runtime control over
channels which is the main reason for this change.
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
All Ralink USB devices I have, including old ones, work well with
max_psdu = 3 (64kB tx AMPDUs).
Fix indent on the way.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
If we do not get TX status in reasonable time, we most likely fail to
send frame hence mark it as so.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Enable RTS frame retry fall-back and limit number of RTS retries to 7
what is default number of retries for small frames. As RTS/CTS is used
for TXOP protection, those settings prevent posting lots of RTS
frames when remote station do not response with CTS at the moment. After
sending 7 RTS's the HW will start back-off mechanism and after it will
start posing RTS again to get access to the medium.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
We do not have option to set per frame retry count. We have only global
TX_RTY_CFG registers which specify the number or retries. Set setting
of that register to value that correspond rate control algorithm number
of frame post (number of retries + 1), which is 3 for aggregated frames.
This should help with big amount of retries on bad conditions, hence
mitigate buffer-bloat like problems.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Reset tuner use curr_band value, make sure it is updated.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
When medium is busy or frames have to be resend, it takes time to send
the frames and get TX status from hardware. For some really bad medium
conditions it can take seconds. Patch change TX status timeout to give
HW more time to provide it, however 500ms is not enough for bad
conditions. In the future this timeout should be removed and replaced
with proper watchdog mechanism.
Increase flush timeout accordingly as well.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
On rt2800usb, if we do not get TX status from HW, we assume frames were
posted and after entry->last_action timeout, we forcibly provide TX
status to mac80211. So it's not possible to detect hardware TX hung
based on the timeout. Additionally TXRQ_PCNT tells on number of frames
in the Packet Buffer (buffer between bus interface and chip MAC
subsystem), which can be non zero on normal conditions. To check HW hung
we will need provide some different mechanism, for now remove watchdog
as current implementation is wrong and not useful.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Our code was assigning number of channels to the index variable by
default. If firmware reported channel we didn't predict this would
result in using that initial index value and writing out of array. This
never happened so far (we got a complete list of supported channels) but
it means possible memory corruption so we should handle it anyway.
This patch simply detects unexpected channel and ignores it.
As we don't try to create new entry now, it's also safe to drop hw_value
and center_freq assignment. For known channels we have these set anyway.
I decided to fix this issue by assigning NULL or a target channel to the
channel variable. This was one of possible ways, I prefefred this one as
it also avoids using channel[index] over and over.
Fixes: 58de92d2f9 ("brcmfmac: use static superset of channels for wiphy bands")
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Checking the firmware status from PCIe register only works
if the register is available, otherwise we end up with
random behavior:
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c: In function 'mwifiex_pcie_remove':
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/pcie.c:585:5: error: 'fw_status' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
This makes sure we treat the absence of the register as a failure.
Fixes: 045f0c1b5e ("mwifiex: get rid of global user_rmmod flag")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This patch moves sdio_work to card structure, in this way we can get
adapter structure in the work, so save_adapter won't be needed.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
__mwifiex_sdio_remove helper is not needed after
our enhancements in SDIO card reset.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Commit b4336a282d ("mwifiex: sdio: reset adapter using mmc_hw_reset")
introduces a simple sdio card reset solution based on card remove and
re-probe. This solution has proved to be vulnerable, as card and
adapter structures are not protected, concurrent access will result in
kernel panic issues.
Let's reuse PCIe FLR's functions for SDIO reset to avoid freeing and
reallocating adapter and card structures.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
adapter and card variables don't get freed during PCIe function level
reset. "adapter->ext_scan" variable need not be re-initialized.
fw_name and tx_buf_size initialization is moved to pcie specific code
so that mwifiex_reinit_sw() can be used by SDIO.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
This patch gets rid of mwifiex_do_flr. We will call
mwifiex_shutdown_sw() and mwifiex_reinit_sw() directly.
These two general purpose functions will be useful for
sdio card reset handler.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
After user_rmmod global flag removal, *_init_module() and
*_cleanup_module() have become just a wrapper functions.
We will get rid of them with the help of module_*_driver() macros.
For pcie, existing ".init_if" handler has same name as what
module_pcie_driver() macro will create. Let's rename it to
avoid conflict.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
bus.remove() callback function is called when user removes this module
from kernel space or ejects the card from the slot. The driver handles
these 2 cases differently. Few commands (FUNC_SHUTDOWN etc.) are sent to
the firmware only for module unload case.
The variable 'user_rmmod' is used to distinguish between these two
scenarios.
This patch checks hardware status and get rid of global variable
user_rmmod.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Next patch in this series is going to use mwifiex_read_reg() in remove
handlers. The changes here are prerequisites to avoid forward
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Currently pcie_work and related variables are global. It may create
problem while supporting multiple devices simultaneously. Let's move
it inside card structure so that separate instance will be created/
cancelled in init/teardown threads of each connected devices.
Signed-off-by: Ganapathi Bhat <gbhat@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Wait for firmware dump complete in card remove function.
For sdio interface, there are two diffenrent cases,
card reset trigger sdio_work and firmware dump trigger sdio_work.
Do code rearrangement for distinguish between these two cases.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
We can avoid drv_info_dump and drv_info_size adapter variables.
This info can be passed to mwifiex_upload_device_dump() as parameters
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
mwifiex_upload_device_dump() already takes care of freeing firmware dump
memory. Doing the same thing in mwifiex_shutdown_drv() is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
main_process is not expected to be running when shutdown_drv function
is called. currently we wait for main_process completion in the
function.
Actually the caller has already made sure main_process is completed by
performing below actions.
(1) disable interrupts in if_ops->disable_int.
(2) set adapter->surprise_removed = true, main_process wont be queued.
(3) mwifiex_terminate_workqueue(adapter), wait for workqueue to be
completed.
This patch removes redundant wait code and takes care of related
cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Xinming Hu <huxm@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Commit 7f953ab2ba ("af_packet: TX_RING support for TPACKET_V3")
now makes it possible to use TX_RING with TPACKET_V3, so make the
the relevant information available via 'ss -e -a --packet'
Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Make the functions __local_list_pop_free(), __local_list_pop_pending(),
bpf_common_lru_populate() and bpf_percpu_lru_populate() static as they
are not used outide of bpf_lru_list.c
This fixes the following GCC warnings when building with 'W=1':
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:363:22: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__local_list_pop_free’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:376:22: warning: no previous prototype for ‘__local_list_pop_pending’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:560:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_common_lru_populate’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:577:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘bpf_percpu_lru_populate’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the unused but set variable 'first_node' in
__bpf_lru_list_shrink_inactive() to fix the following GCC warning when
building with 'W=1':
kernel/bpf/bpf_lru_list.c:216:41: warning: variable ‘first_node’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The patch 009146d117 ("ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave
device.") used ida_simple_get() to generate dev_ids assigned to the
slave devices. However (Eric has pointed out that) there is a shortcoming
with that approach as it always uses the first available ID. This
becomes a problem when a slave gets deleted and a new slave gets added.
The ID gets reassigned causing the new slave to get the same link-local
address. This side-effect is undesirable.
This patch adds a per-port variable that keeps track of the IDs
assigned and used as the stat-base for the IDR api. This base will be
wrapped around when it reaches the MAX (0xFFFE) value possibly on a
busy system where slaves are added and deleted routinely.
Fixes: 009146d117 ("ipvlan: assign unique dev-id for each slave device.")
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Store the L4 hash of received packets in the skb; the hash is computed in
the NIC firmware.
Signed-off-by: Prasad Kanneganti <prasad.kanneganti@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Edward Cree says:
====================
sfc: physical port ids
This series brings our handling of ndo_get_phys_port_id and related
interfaces into line with the behaviour of other drivers.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Setting dev_port changes the device names allocated by systemd. Any devices
with a dev_port >0 will (in default distro configurations) have a suffix of
"d<port-number>" appended.
This is not something done by other drivers, and causes confusion for users.
Fixes: 8be41320f3 ("sfc: Add code to export port_num in netdev->dev_port")
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Output is of the form p<port-number>.
Note that the port numbers don't necessarily map one-to-one to physical
cages, partly because of 4x10G port modes on QSFP+ and partly because
of hw/fw implementation details.
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
There's no good reason why this should be an SRIOV-only thing.
Thus, also move it out of SRIOV-specific files.
Signed-off-by: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add support for some ethtool methods: get/set link settings, get/set
message level, get statistics, get link status, get ring params, get
pause params, and restart autonegotiation.
The code to collect the hardware statistics is moved into its own
function so that it can be used by "get statistics" method.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The support for DSA Ethernet switch chips depends on TCP/IP networking,
thus explicit that HAVE_NET_DSA depends on INET.
DSA uses SWITCHDEV, thus select it instead of depending on it.
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The following series of patches optimizes the usage of the UAR area which is
contained within the BAR 0-1. Previous versions of the firmware and the driver
assumed each system page contains a single UAR. This patch set will query the
firmware for a new capability that if published, means that the firmware can
support UARs of fixed 4K regardless of system page size. In the case of
powerpc, where page size equals 64KB, this means we can utilize 16 UARs per
system page. Since user space processes by default consume eight UARs per
context this means that with this change a process will need a single system
page to fulfill that requirement and in fact make use of more UARs which is
better in terms of performance.
In addition to optimizing user-space processes, we introduce an allocator
that can be used by kernel consumers to allocate blue flame registers
(which are areas within a UAR that are used to write doorbells). This provides
further optimization on using the UAR area since the Ethernet driver makes
use of a single blue flame register per system page and now it will use two
blue flame registers per 4K.
The series also makes changes to naming conventions and now the terms used in
the driver code match the terms used in the PRM (programmers reference manual).
Thus, what used to be called UUAR (micro UAR) is now called BFREG (blue flame
register).
In order to support compatibility between different versions of
library/driver/firmware, the library has now means to notify the kernel driver
that it supports the new scheme and the kernel can notify the library if it
supports this extension. So mixed versions of libraries can run concurrently
without any issues.
Thanks,
Eli and Matan
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Merge tag 'mlx5-4kuar-for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux
Saeed Mahameed says:
====================
mlx5 4K UAR
The following series of patches optimizes the usage of the UAR area which is
contained within the BAR 0-1. Previous versions of the firmware and the driver
assumed each system page contains a single UAR. This patch set will query the
firmware for a new capability that if published, means that the firmware can
support UARs of fixed 4K regardless of system page size. In the case of
powerpc, where page size equals 64KB, this means we can utilize 16 UARs per
system page. Since user space processes by default consume eight UARs per
context this means that with this change a process will need a single system
page to fulfill that requirement and in fact make use of more UARs which is
better in terms of performance.
In addition to optimizing user-space processes, we introduce an allocator
that can be used by kernel consumers to allocate blue flame registers
(which are areas within a UAR that are used to write doorbells). This provides
further optimization on using the UAR area since the Ethernet driver makes
use of a single blue flame register per system page and now it will use two
blue flame registers per 4K.
The series also makes changes to naming conventions and now the terms used in
the driver code match the terms used in the PRM (programmers reference manual).
Thus, what used to be called UUAR (micro UAR) is now called BFREG (blue flame
register).
In order to support compatibility between different versions of
library/driver/firmware, the library has now means to notify the kernel driver
that it supports the new scheme and the kernel can notify the library if it
supports this extension. So mixed versions of libraries can run concurrently
without any issues.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Brian Norris