The glink protocol works with a shared-memory(transport) for communication between the local and remote processors. The existing glink-rpm driver implements the basic features of the protocol and uses msgram as the transport. The same is extended to support smem based transport as well. The first few patches consolidates the code, so that the core protocol code is made common for both the types of transport. The next set of patches adds the additional features of the protocol required by clients using smem based transport, particularly support for intents. * What is intents ? Intents are nothing but pre-allocated buffers that both the local and the remote clients allocate and share the details (about the buffer size and an id) before intending to receive data. The transmitter then searches for an suitable 'intent-id' based on size from the list that it was notified previously and sends the data targeting that intent buffer, which is then copied by the receiver in to the same intent-buffer. So this avoids memory allocation stalls on copy based transports. [V2] Fixed review comments and a race condition when the remote device goes down. Added 2 small patches for fixing the same. Previous version is here [1] [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg601119.html Bjorn Andersson (7): rpmsg: glink: Rename glink_rpm_xx functions to qcom_glink_xx rpmsg: glink: Associate indirections for pipe fifo accessor's rpmsg: glink: Split rpm_probe to reuse the common code rpmsg: glink: Move the common glink protocol implementation to glink_native.c rpmsg: glink: Allow unaligned data access rpmsg: glink: Introduce glink smem based transport rpmsg: glink: Make RX FIFO peak accessor to take an offset Sricharan R (13): rpmsg: glink: Return -EAGAIN when there is no FIFO space rpmsg: glink: Do a mbox_free_channel in remove rpmsg: glink: Fix default case while handling received commands rpmsg: glink: Add support for transport version negotiation rpmsg: glink: Fix idr_lock from mutex to spinlock rpmsg: glink: Add support for TX intents rpmsg: glink: Use the local intents when receiving data rpmsg: glink: Add rx done command rpmsg: glink: Add announce_create ops and preallocate intents rpmsg: glink: Receive and store the remote intent buffers rpmsg: glink: Use the intents passed by remote rpmsg: glink: Request for intents when unavailable rpmsg: glink: Handle remote rx done command drivers/rpmsg/Kconfig | 16 +- drivers/rpmsg/Makefile | 2 + drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c | 1611 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.h | 45 ++ drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_rpm.c | 1026 ++--------------------- drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_smem.c | 316 ++++++++ include/linux/rpmsg/qcom_glink.h | 27 + 7 files changed, 2092 insertions(+), 951 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.c create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_native.h create mode 100644 drivers/rpmsg/qcom_glink_smem.c create mode 100644 include/linux/rpmsg/qcom_glink.h -- QUALCOMM INDIA, on behalf of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html