[PATCH v2 0/5] vduse: Add support for reconnection

From: Cindy Lu
Date: Tue Nov 21 2023 - 02:31:03 EST


Here is the reconnect support in vduse,

kernel will allocted pages for reconnection
userspace need use ioctl VDUSE_GET_RECONNECT_INFO to
get the mmap related information and then mapping these pages
to userspace.
kernel and userspace will use these pages to sync
the reconnect information
kernel will use VDUSE_VQ_GET_INFO to sync the information
userspace App will call during the "user_app_dev_start()".

change in V2
1. Address the comments from v1
2. Add the document for reconnect process

Cindy Lu (5):
vduse: Add function to get/free the pages for reconnection
vduse: Add file operation for mmap
vduse: Add new ioctl VDUSE_GET_RECONNECT_INFO
vduse: update the vq_info in ioctl
Documentation: Add reconnect process for VDUSE

Documentation/userspace-api/vduse.rst | 29 ++++
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c | 198 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
include/uapi/linux/vduse.h | 50 +++++++
3 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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