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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail•com>
To: Haren Myneni <haren@linux•ibm.com>,
	herbert@gondor•apana.org.au, linux-crypto@vger•kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, mpe@ellerman•id.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/16] powerpc/vas: Add platform specific user window operations
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:05:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1622692598.4iphcb4vdf.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4fb4b7bb98580ae3c025d83148a6406541de892.camel@linux.ibm.com>

Excerpts from Haren Myneni's message of May 21, 2021 7:30 pm:
> 
> PowerNV uses registers to open/close VAS windows, and getting the
> paste address. Whereas the hypervisor calls are used on PowerVM.
> 
> This patch adds the platform specific user space window operations
> and register with the common VAS user space interface.

Basic idea makes sense. I don't understand this code in detail though.
A couple of things,

> 
> Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux•ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h              | 14 +++++-
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/book3s/vas-api.c     | 52 ++++++++++++---------
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/vas-window.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> index 6076adf9ab4f..668303198772 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vas.h
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
>  
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_VAS_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_VAS_H
> +#include <uapi/asm/vas-api.h>
>  
>  struct vas_window;
>  
> @@ -48,6 +49,16 @@ enum vas_cop_type {
>  	VAS_COP_TYPE_MAX,
>  };
>  
> +/*
> + * User space window operations used for powernv and powerVM
> + */
> +struct vas_user_win_ops {
> +	struct vas_window * (*open_win)(struct vas_tx_win_open_attr *,
> +				enum vas_cop_type);
> +	u64 (*paste_addr)(void *);
> +	int (*close_win)(void *);

Without looking further into the series, why do these two take void * 
when the first returns a vas_window * which appears to be the required
argument to these?

> +static struct vas_user_win_ops vops =  {
> +	.open_win	=	vas_user_win_open,
> +	.paste_addr	=	vas_user_win_paste_addr,
> +	.close_win	=	vas_user_win_close,
> +};

const?

Thanks,
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-03  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21  9:25 [PATCH v4 00/16] Enable VAS and NX-GZIP support on powerVM Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:28 ` [PATCH v4 01/16] powerpc/vas: Move VAS API to book3s common platform Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  3:32   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-03 20:23     ` Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:29 ` [PATCH v4 02/16] powerpc/powernv/vas: Rename register/unregister functions Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:30 ` [PATCH v4 03/16] powerpc/vas: Add platform specific user window operations Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:05   ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2021-06-03 20:25     ` Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:31 ` [PATCH v4 04/16] powerpc/vas: Create take/drop pid and mm references Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:21   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04  4:08     ` Haren Myneni
2021-06-05  0:31       ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-05  3:03         ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-21  9:32 ` [PATCH v4 05/16] powerpc/vas: Move update_csb/dump_crb to common book3s platform Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:26   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-21  9:33 ` [PATCH v4 06/16] powerpc/vas: Define and use common vas_window struct Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:38   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04  4:35     ` Haren Myneni
2021-06-04 11:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2021-06-04 21:19         ` Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:34 ` [PATCH v4 07/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Define VAS/NXGZIP HCALLs and structs Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:47   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04  1:30     ` Haren Myneni
2021-06-05  0:37       ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-21  9:34 ` [PATCH v4 08/16] powerpc/vas: Define QoS credit flag to allocate window Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:35 ` [PATCH v4 09/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Add HCALL wrappers for VAS handling Haren Myneni
2021-06-04 11:52   ` Michael Ellerman
2021-06-04 21:53     ` Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:38 ` [PATCH v4 10/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Implement getting capabilities from hypervisor Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:39 ` [PATCH v4 11/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Integrate API with open/close windows Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:39 ` [PATCH v4 12/16] powerpc/pseries/vas: Setup IRQ and fault handling Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  5:48   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04  1:19     ` Haren Myneni
2021-06-05  0:43       ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-21  9:40 ` [PATCH v4 13/16] crypto/nx: Rename nx-842-pseries file name to nx-common-pseries Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:41 ` [PATCH v4 14/16] crypto/nx: Register and unregister VAS interface Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:59   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-21  9:41 ` [PATCH v4 15/16] crypto/nx: Get NX capabilities for GZIP coprocessor type Haren Myneni
2021-05-21  9:42 ` [PATCH v4 16/16] crypto/nx: Add sysfs interface to export NX capabilities Haren Myneni
2021-06-03  4:57   ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-06-04  1:02     ` Haren Myneni
2021-06-04 11:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2021-06-04 17:23         ` Haren Myneni

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