[Skiboot] [PATCH v5 0/7] Enable VAS

[Sukadev Bhattiprolu]

Sukadev Bhattiprolu [sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com] wrote:
> Power9 introduces a hardware subsystem referred to as the Virtual
> Accelerator Switchboard (VAS). VAS allows kernel subsystems and user
> space processes to directly access the Nest Accelerator (NX) engines
> which implement compression and encryption algorithms in the hardware.
> 
> NX has been in Power processors since Power7+, but access to the NX
> engines was through the 'icswx' instruction which is only available
> to the kernel/hypervisor. Starting with Power9, access to the NX
> engines is provided to both kernel and user space processes through
> VAS.
> 
> The switchboard (i.e VAS) multiplexes accesses between "receivers" and
> "senders", where the "receivers" are typically the NX engines and
> "senders" are the kernel subsystems and user processors that wish to
> access the receivers (NX engines).  Once a sender is "connected" to 
> a receiver through the switchboard, the sender can submit compression/
> encryption requests to the hardware using the new (in PowerISA 3.0)
> "copy" and "paste" instructions.
> 
> In the initial OPAL and PowerNV kernel patchsets, the "senders" can
> only be kernel subsystems (i.e NX-842 driver). A follow-on patch set
> will allow senders to be user-space processes.
> 
> This OPAL patch set initializes the VAS registers and makes the VAS
> hardware available to the NX-842 driver in the kernel. It also provides
> some interfaces that the NX-842 subsystem in OPAL needs to initialize
> the NX hardware in Power9.
> 
> This patchset has been tested in a Simics Power9 environment using:
> 	- the corresponding VAS kernel patchset [1]
> 	- modified NX-842 OPAL and kernel drivers, and
> 	- a compression self-test module from Power8.
> 
> A newer version of the VAS kernel patchset, as well as the OPAL and
> kernel patchsets for NX-842 driver will be posted separately. All four
> are needed to effectively use VAS/NX in Power9.
> 
> Thanks to Haren Myneni for the NX-842 modifications and help with
> testing, Ben Herrenschmidt, Michael Ellerman and Michael Neuling for
> input on working with the hardware and Oliver O'Halloran and Balbir
> Singh for review comments.
> 
> [1] RFC version of VAS kernel patch set:
>     https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-November/150854.html

Updated, [v4] of the kernel patch set is at:

      https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-March/156078.html

> 
> Changelog[v5]
> 	- Create device tree entries for HVWC, UWC and Paste address; drop
> 	  the vas-#windows entries as number of windows are constant
> 	- Assign an unique vas-id to each instance and export it in DT.
> 	- Drop the patch to read FIR. Will include it in a follow-on patchset.
> 
> Changelog[v4]
> 	- Comments from Balbir: Made some functions inline; added some device
> 	  tree nodes
> 	- Dropped the patch to allocate/return IRQ ports for now. Will
> 	  repost the patch later.
> 
> Changelog[v3]
>        - [Oliver O'Halloran] Fold changes to vas.c and Makefile.inc from
>                 patch 1 into current patch; use constant 'true' for the
>                 (unnecessary) macros that were removed by earlier patch;
>                 free wcbs memory if any chip fails initialization;use
>                 prolog()/prerror() instead of printf; Use out_be64() to
>                 write to the MMIO address
> 
>        - [Oliver O'Halloran, Alistair Popple] Use proc_gen to check for P9
> 
> Changelog[v2]
> 	- Drop BenH's patch (interface to retrieve IPI trigger port) from
> 	  this set since it has been merged into skiboot.
> 	- Minor code reorg to address Alistair Popple's comment (Patch 5).
> 
> 
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu (7):
>   Define helpers to extract P9 node/chip ids
>   vas: Define macros of constants and register fields
>   vas: Initialize VAS registers
>   vas: Define helper to compute window paste address
>   vas: Create device tree node
>   vas: Define vas_get_hvwc_mmio_bar interface
>   vas: Define vas_get_wcbs_bar interface
> 
>  core/Makefile.inc |   2 +-
>  core/init.c       |   4 +
>  core/vas.c        | 375 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/chip.h    |   7 +
>  include/vas.h     | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 545 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 core/vas.c
>  create mode 100644 include/vas.h
> 
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> 2.7.4
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