Excerpts from Haren Myneni's message of April 18, 2021 7:12 am:
>
> phyp provides NX capabilities which gives recommended minimum
> compression / decompression length and maximum request buffer size
> in bytes.
>
> Changes to get NX overall capabilities which points to the specific
> features phyp supports. Then retrieve NXGZIP specific capabilities.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> index 9a40fca8a9e6..49224870d05e 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
> */
>
> #include <asm/vio.h>
> +#include <asm/hvcall.h>
> #include <asm/vas.h>
>
> #include "nx-842.h"
> @@ -20,6 +21,24 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION("842 H/W Compression driver for IBM Power processors");
> MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("842");
> MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO("842-nx");
>
> +struct nx_ct_capabs_be {
What does "ct" mean? I've seen it in a few other places too.
> + __be64 descriptor;
> + __be64 req_max_processed_len; /* Max bytes in one GZIP request */
> + __be64 min_compress_len; /* Min compression size in bytes */
> + __be64 min_decompress_len; /* Min decompression size in bytes */
> +} __packed __aligned(0x1000);
> +
> +struct nx_ct_capabs {
> + char name[VAS_DESCR_LEN + 1];
> + u64 descriptor;
> + u64 req_max_processed_len; /* Max bytes in one GZIP request */
> + u64 min_compress_len; /* Min compression in bytes */
> + u64 min_decompress_len; /* Min decompression in bytes */
> +};
> +
> +u64 capab_feat = 0;
Why is this here and not a local variable?
> +struct nx_ct_capabs nx_ct_capab;
It's okay and generally better to use the same name as the struct name
in this situation, i.e.,
"struct nx_ct_capabs nx_ct_capabs"
(modulo static / caps / etc)
Thanks,
Nick
