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Mauro Carvalho Chehab baa293e954 docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents under Documentation/*.txt and a few other
orphan documents elsehwere that belong to the driver-API book.

Move them to their right place.

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> # vfio-related parts
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> # switchtec
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Thomas Gleixner ec8f24b7fa treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Kirti Wankhede 8e1c5a4048 docs: Add Documentation for Mediated devices
Add file Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt that include details of
mediated device framework.

Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2016-11-17 08:33:20 -07:00
Kirti Wankhede fa3da00cb8 vfio: VFIO based driver for Mediated devices
vfio_mdev driver registers with mdev core driver.
mdev core driver creates mediated device and calls probe routine of
vfio_mdev driver for each device.
Probe routine of vfio_mdev driver adds mediated device to VFIO core module

This driver forms a shim layer that pass through VFIO devices operations
to vendor driver for mediated devices.

Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2016-11-17 08:24:50 -07:00
Kirti Wankhede 7b96953bc6 vfio: Mediated device Core driver
Design for Mediated Device Driver:
Main purpose of this driver is to provide a common interface for mediated
device management that can be used by different drivers of different
devices.

This module provides a generic interface to create the device, add it to
mediated bus, add device to IOMMU group and then add it to vfio group.

Below is the high Level block diagram, with Nvidia, Intel and IBM devices
as example, since these are the devices which are going to actively use
this module as of now.

 +---------------+
 |               |
 | +-----------+ |  mdev_register_driver() +--------------+
 | |           | +<------------------------+ __init()     |
 | |  mdev     | |                         |              |
 | |  bus      | +------------------------>+              |<-> VFIO user
 | |  driver   | |     probe()/remove()    | vfio_mdev.ko |    APIs
 | |           | |                         |              |
 | +-----------+ |                         +--------------+
 |               |
 |  MDEV CORE    |
 |   MODULE      |
 |   mdev.ko     |
 | +-----------+ |  mdev_register_device() +--------------+
 | |           | +<------------------------+              |
 | |           | |                         |  nvidia.ko   |<-> physical
 | |           | +------------------------>+              |    device
 | |           | |        callback         +--------------+
 | | Physical  | |
 | |  device   | |  mdev_register_device() +--------------+
 | | interface | |<------------------------+              |
 | |           | |                         |  i915.ko     |<-> physical
 | |           | +------------------------>+              |    device
 | |           | |        callback         +--------------+
 | |           | |
 | |           | |  mdev_register_device() +--------------+
 | |           | +<------------------------+              |
 | |           | |                         | ccw_device.ko|<-> physical
 | |           | +------------------------>+              |    device
 | |           | |        callback         +--------------+
 | +-----------+ |
 +---------------+

Core driver provides two types of registration interfaces:
1. Registration interface for mediated bus driver:

/**
  * struct mdev_driver - Mediated device's driver
  * @name: driver name
  * @probe: called when new device created
  * @remove:called when device removed
  * @driver:device driver structure
  *
  **/
struct mdev_driver {
         const char *name;
         int  (*probe)  (struct device *dev);
         void (*remove) (struct device *dev);
         struct device_driver    driver;
};

Mediated bus driver for mdev device should use this interface to register
and unregister with core driver respectively:

int  mdev_register_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv, struct module *owner);
void mdev_unregister_driver(struct mdev_driver *drv);

Mediated bus driver is responsible to add/delete mediated devices to/from
VFIO group when devices are bound and unbound to the driver.

2. Physical device driver interface
This interface provides vendor driver the set APIs to manage physical
device related work in its driver. APIs are :

* dev_attr_groups: attributes of the parent device.
* mdev_attr_groups: attributes of the mediated device.
* supported_type_groups: attributes to define supported type. This is
			 mandatory field.
* create: to allocate basic resources in vendor driver for a mediated
         device. This is mandatory to be provided by vendor driver.
* remove: to free resources in vendor driver when mediated device is
         destroyed. This is mandatory to be provided by vendor driver.
* open: open callback of mediated device
* release: release callback of mediated device
* read : read emulation callback.
* write: write emulation callback.
* ioctl: ioctl callback.
* mmap: mmap emulation callback.

Drivers should use these interfaces to register and unregister device to
mdev core driver respectively:

extern int  mdev_register_device(struct device *dev,
                                 const struct parent_ops *ops);
extern void mdev_unregister_device(struct device *dev);

There are no locks to serialize above callbacks in mdev driver and
vfio_mdev driver. If required, vendor driver can have locks to serialize
above APIs in their driver.

Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jike Song <jike.song@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Jia Shi <bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
2016-11-17 08:24:48 -07:00