[PATCH v3 2/2] uacce: add uacce driver

zhangfei zhangfei.gao at linaro.org
Fri Sep 13 00:09:36 AEST 2019



On 2019/9/4 下午8:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 12:14:47PM +0800, Zhangfei Gao wrote:
>> From: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu at hisilicon.com>
>>
>> Uacce (Unified/User-space-access-intended Accelerator Framework) targets to
>> provide Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA) between accelerators and processes.
>> So accelerator can access any data structure of the main cpu.
>> This differs from the data sharing between cpu and io device, which share
>> data content rather than address.
>> Since unified address, hardware and user space of process can share the
>> same virtual address in the communication.
>>
>> Uacce create a chrdev for every registration, the queue is allocated to
>> the process when the chrdev is opened. Then the process can access the
>> hardware resource by interact with the queue file. By mmap the queue
>> file space to user space, the process can directly put requests to the
>> hardware without syscall to the kernel space.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kenneth Lee <liguozhu at hisilicon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zaibo Xu <xuzaibo at huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce |   47 ++
>>   drivers/misc/Kconfig                         |    1 +
>>   drivers/misc/Makefile                        |    1 +
>>   drivers/misc/uacce/Kconfig                   |   13 +
>>   drivers/misc/uacce/Makefile                  |    2 +
>>   drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c                   | 1096 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   include/linux/uacce.h                        |  172 ++++
>>   include/uapi/misc/uacce.h                    |   39 +
>>   8 files changed, 1371 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/misc/uacce/Kconfig
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/misc/uacce/Makefile
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/misc/uacce/uacce.c
>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/uacce.h
>>   create mode 100644 include/uapi/misc/uacce.h
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..ee0a66e
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
>> +What:           /sys/class/uacce/hisi_zip-<n>/id
>> +Date:           Sep 2019
>> +KernelVersion:  5.3
> 5.3 will be released in a week or so, without this file in it, so that's
> not ok here :(
>
Thanks, will use 5.4 instead.
Since 5.4-rc1 still need some time, can I send updated version based on 
5.3-rc8 for more review.
And I found smmu in 5.3-rc1 have issue, and rc8 is OK.

Thanks


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