This patch series introduces Linux support for the Freescale Management Complex (fsl-mc) hardware. This patch series is dependent on the patch series "ARM64: Add support for FSL's LS2085A SoC" (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/351829) The fsl-mc is a hardware resource manager that manages specialized hardware objects used in network-oriented packet processing applications. After the fsl-mc block is enabled, pools of hardware resources are available, such as queues, buffer pools, I/O interfaces. These resources are building blocks that can be used to create functional hardware objects such as network interfaces, crypto accelerator instances, or L2 switches. All the fsl-mc managed hardware resources/objects are represented in a physical grouping mechanism called a 'container' or DPRC (data path resource container). >From the point of view of an OS, a DPRC functions similar to a plug and play bus. Using fsl-mc commands software can enumerate the contents of the DPRC discovering the hardware objects present and binding them to drivers. Hardware objects can be created and removed dynamically, providing hot pluggability of the hardware objects. Software contexts interact with the fsl-mc by sending commands through a memory mapped hardware interface called an "MC portal". Every fsl-mc object type has a command set to manage the objects. Key DPRC commands include: -create/destroy a DPRC -enumerate objects and resource pools in the DPRC, including identifying mappable regions and the number of IRQs an object may have -IRQ configuration -move objects/resources between DPRCs -connecting objects (e.g. connecting a network interface to an L2 switch port) -reset Patch 1 contains a minimal set of low level functions to send an d receive commands to the fsl-mc. It includes support for basic management commands and commands to manipulate DPRC objects. Patch 2 contains a platform device driver that sets up and registers the basic bus infrastructure including support for adding/removing devices, register/unregister of drivers, and bus match support to bind devices to drivers. Patch 3 contains an driver that manages DPRC objects (the container that holds the hardware resources). This driver functions as a bus controller and handles enumeration of the objects in the container and hotplug events. CHANGE HISTORY Changes in v9: - Fixed compilation errors that escaped after move to staging Changes in v8: - Addressed comments from Greg Kroah-Hartman. Moved patch series to drivers/staging. - Addressed comments from Alex Graf. Details in each patch. Changes in v7: - Refactored MC bus data structures. - Moved creation of fsl_mc_io object from fsl_mc_add_device() to dprc_probe(). - Addressed comments from Alex Graf. Details in each patch. Changes in v6: - Upgraded MC flibs to version 0.5 - Fixed warnings from latest checkpatch Changes in v5: - Addressed comments from Alex Graf. Details in each patch. Changes in v4: - Addressed changes from ALex Graf. Details in each patch. - Upgraded MC flibs to version 0.5 - Fixed bug related to setting fsl_mc_bus_type.dev_root too late Changes in v3: - Addressed pending issues not resolved in v2: * Removed Doxygen comments as requested by Greg Kroah-Hartman * Moved newly added FSL-specific header files from include/linux to include/linux/fsl * Changed wording of licenses in MC flib source files * Fixed sparse warning about context imbalance in 'mc_send_command' - Addressed additional comments from Kim Phillips, Scott Wood and Timur Tabi. Details in each patch. Issues pending resolution not addressed by v3: - Checkpatch warnings: * WARNING: DT compatible string "fsl,qoriq-mc" appears un-documented This warning will go away once the prerequisite patch series is accepted upstream. * WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating? This warning still happens even after adding MAINTAINERS file entries in the same patch where new files were added Changes in v2: - Added reference to the patch series this patch is dependent on for device tree and device tree bindings changes. (See above). - Removed patch 4 (update to the MAINTAINERS file), as this is done now in patch 1 - Addressed comments from Joe Perches, Kim Phillips, Alex Graf and Scott Wood. Details in each patch. Issues pending resolution not addressed by v2: - What to do with Doxygen comments in patch 1 - Whether to move or not FSL-specific header files added in include/linux, by this patch series, to another location - Whether to change or not the wording of the licenses used in some source files - Checkpatch warnings: * WARNING: DT compatible string "fsl,qoriq-mc" appears un-documented This warning will go away once the prerequisite patch series is accepted upstream. * WARNING: added, moved or deleted file(s), does MAINTAINERS need updating? This warning still happens even after adding MAINTAINERS file entries in the same patch where new files were added - Sparse warning: * drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl_mc_sys.c:193:9: warning: context imbalance in 'mc_send_command' - different lock contexts for basic block This warning is caused by conditionally acquiring/releasing a lock in function mc_send_command(). Not clear how to solve this warning, as we need to be able to decide at run time based on a flag whether to acquire the lock or not. Changes in v1: - No changes since RFC v4 Changes in RFC v4: - Fixed parameter mismatch for device_find_child() call in fsl_mc_dprc.c - Added back the dma_mask field to struct fsl_mc_device as it is needed by some MC child device drivers. However, the default DMA mask now does not have the 32-bit limitation of the original patch series (v1). Changes in RFC v3: Rework to address comments from Arnd Bergmann: - Removed per-bus list of children, and instead use device_for_each_child() - Use the same structure (struct fsl_mc_device) to represent both bus devices and their children. http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg711301.html Changes in RFC v2: Rework to address comments from Arnd Bergmann: - Removed fsl_mc_bus structure and global variable - Removed the 'magic' fields from all structs - Removed NULL initializers - Replaced all occurrences of EXPORT_SYMBOL() with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() - Removed function dprc_parse_dt_node(), and replaced its call by a direct call to of_address_to_resource() - Removed struct fsl_mc_device_region and use standard 'struct resource' instead. - Removed dma_mask field from 'struct fsl_mc_device' as it is not currently being used. - Removed redundant 'driver' field from struct fsl_mc_device - Removed the container field. We can get the parent DPRC of a given dev, from its dev.parent field. http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg708858.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
