[v5, 1/2] cxl: Add mechanism for delivering AFU driver specific events

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 16 23:05:53 AEST 2016


On Mon, 2016-23-05 at 12:49:01 UTC, Philippe Bergheaud wrote:
> This adds an afu_driver_ops structure with deliver_event() and
> event_delivered() callbacks. An AFU driver such as cxlflash can fill
> this out and associate it with a context to enable passing custom
> AFU specific events to userspace.
> 
> This also adds a new kernel API function cxl_context_pending_events(),
> that the AFU driver can use to notify the cxl driver that new specific
> events are ready to be delivered, and wake up anyone waiting on the
> context wait queue.
...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud <felix at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

It looks like the discussion has settled down on this one, and everyone was OK
with it, except maybe the naming?

So can we either get some ACKs, or a v6 with new naming?

cheers


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