Re: [PATCH v3] vringh: IOMEM support

[Jason Wang]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 6:23 PM Shunsuke Mie <mie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Introduce a new memory accessor for vringh. It is able to use vringh to
> virtio rings located on io-memory region.

Is there a user for this? It would be better if you can describe the
use cases for this. Maybe you can post the user or at least a link to
the git as a reference.

>
> Signed-off-by: Shunsuke Mie <mie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes from v2: https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/20230202090934.549556-1-mie@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Focus on an adding io memory APIs
> Remove vringh API unification and some fixes.
> - Rebase on next-20230414
>
>  drivers/vhost/Kconfig  |   6 ++
>  drivers/vhost/vringh.c | 129 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/vringh.h |  33 +++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 168 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> index b455d9ab6f3d..4b0dbb4a8ab3 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/Kconfig
> @@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ config VHOST_IOTLB
>           This option is selected by any driver which needs to support
>           an IOMMU in software.
>
> +config VHOST_RING_IOMEM
> +       tristate
> +       select VHOST_IOMEM
> +       help
> +         This option enables vringh APIs to supports io memory space.

There's no specific Kconfig for all the existing accessors. Any reason
I/O memory is special or do you care about the size of the module?

> +
>  config VHOST_RING
>         tristate
>         select VHOST_IOTLB
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> index 955d938eb663..ce5a88eecc05 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vringh.c
> @@ -1604,4 +1604,133 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vringh_need_notify_iotlb);
>
>  #endif
>

[...]

>
> base-commit: d3f2cd24819158bb70701c3549e586f9df9cee67
> prerequisite-patch-id: 760abbe8c981c52ccc421b8139e8999ab71619aa
> prerequisite-patch-id: 99d8679ab4569545c8af401e84142c66312e953e
> prerequisite-patch-id: aca81516aba75b58c8422d37c2dc7db2f61ffe92
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These seem meaningless?

Thanks

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