misc: mic: MIC host and card driver changes to enable VOP
This patch modifies the MIC host and card drivers to start using the
VOP driver. The MIC host and card drivers now implement the VOP bus
operations and register a VOP device on the VOP bus. MIC driver stack
documentation is also updated to include the new VOP driver.
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
index 73f44fc..074adbd 100644
--- a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
@@ -12,10 +12,19 @@
Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
-on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
-for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
-the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
-though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
+on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent
+environment for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it
+leverages the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console
+devices, though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe
+bus. A Virtio Over PCIe (VOP) driver allows creating user space
+backends or devices on the host which are used to probe virtio drivers
+for these devices on the MIC card. The existing VRINGH infrastructure
+in the kernel is used to access virtio rings from the host. The card
+VOP driver allows card virtio drivers to communicate with their user
+space backends on the host via a device page. Ring 3 apps on the host
+can add, remove and configure virtio devices. A thin MIC specific
+virtio_config_ops is implemented which is borrowed heavily from
+previous similar implementations in lguest and s390.
MIC PCIe card has a dma controller with 8 channels. These channels are
shared between the host s/w and the card s/w. 0 to 3 are used by host
@@ -38,7 +47,6 @@
the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
- |
+----------+ | +----------+
| Card OS | | | Host OS |
+----------+ | +----------+
@@ -47,27 +55,25 @@
| Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
| Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
| Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
- +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
+ +---+---+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +---------+ +----+---+ +--------+
| | | | | | |
| | | |User | | |
- | | | |------|------------|---------|-------
- +-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
- | | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
- | | +--------------------------+
-+-----------+ | | | +-----------+
-| MIC DMA | | +------+ | +------+ +------+ | | MIC DMA |
-| Driver | | | SCIF | | | SCIF | | COSM | | | Driver |
-+-----------+ | +------+ | +------+ +--+---+ | +-----------+
- | | | | | | | |
-+---------------+ | +------+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ | +----------------+
-|MIC virtual Bus| | |SCIF | | |SCIF | | COSM | | |MIC virtual Bus |
-+---------------+ | |HW Bus| | |HW Bus| | Bus | | +----------------+
- | | +------+ | +--+---+ +------+ | |
- | | | | | | | |
- | +-----------+---+ | | | +---------------+ |
- | |Intel MIC | | | | |Intel MIC | |
- +---|Card Driver | | | | |Host Driver | |
- +------------+--------+ | +----+---------------+-----+
+ | | | |------|------------|--+------|-------
+ +---------+---------+ |Kernel |
+ | | |
+ +---------+ +---+----+ +------+ | +------+ +------+ +--+---+ +-------+
+ |MIC DMA | | VOP | | SCIF | | | SCIF | | COSM | | VOP | |MIC DMA|
+ +---+-----+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+ +----+--+
+ | | | | | | |
+ +---+-----+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+ +----+--+
+ |MIC | | VOP | |SCIF | | |SCIF | | COSM | | VOP | | MIC |
+ |HW Bus | | HW Bus| |HW Bus| | |HW Bus| | Bus | |HW Bus| |HW Bus |
+ +---------+ +--------+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +------+ +------+ +-------+
+ | | | | | | |
+ | +-----------+--+ | | | +---------------+ |
+ | |Intel MIC | | | | |Intel MIC | |
+ | |Card Driver | | | | |Host Driver | |
+ +---+--------------+------+ | +----+---------------+-----+
| | |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
