Re: [PATCH] ocxl: Add get_metadata IOCTL to share OCXL information to userspace

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Wed Feb 21 2018 - 01:44:10 EST


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some required information is not exposed to userspace currently (eg. the
> PASID), pass this information back, along with other information which
> is currently communicated via sysfs, which saves some parsing effort in
> userspace.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
> index d9aa407db06a..11514a8444e5 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
> @@ -102,10 +102,32 @@ static long afu_ioctl_attach(struct ocxl_context *ctx,
> return rc;
> }
>
> +static long afu_ioctl_get_metadata(struct ocxl_context *ctx,
> + struct ocxl_ioctl_get_metadata __user *uarg)

Why do we call this metadata? Isn't this an afu_descriptor?

> +{
> + struct ocxl_ioctl_get_metadata arg;
> +
> + memset(&arg, 0, sizeof(arg));
> +
> + arg.version = 0;

Does it make sense to have version 0? Even if does, you can afford
to skip initialization due to the memset above. I prefer that versions
start with 1

> +
> + arg.afu_version_major = ctx->afu->config.version_major;
> + arg.afu_version_minor = ctx->afu->config.version_minor;
> + arg.pasid = ctx->pasid;
> + arg.pp_mmio_size = ctx->afu->config.pp_mmio_stride;
> + arg.global_mmio_size = ctx->afu->config.global_mmio_size;
> +
> + if (copy_to_user(uarg, &arg, sizeof(arg)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> #define CMD_STR(x) (x == OCXL_IOCTL_ATTACH ? "ATTACH" : \
> x == OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_ALLOC ? "IRQ_ALLOC" : \
> x == OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_FREE ? "IRQ_FREE" : \
> x == OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_SET_FD ? "IRQ_SET_FD" : \
> + x == OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA ? "GET_METADATA" : \
> "UNKNOWN")
>
> static long afu_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> @@ -157,6 +179,11 @@ static long afu_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> irq_fd.eventfd);
> break;
>
> + case OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA:
> + rc = afu_ioctl_get_metadata(ctx,
> + (struct ocxl_ioctl_get_metadata __user *) args);
> + break;
> +
> default:
> rc = -EINVAL;
> }
> diff --git a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h
> index 4b0b0b756f3e..16e1f48ce280 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/misc/ocxl.h
> @@ -32,6 +32,27 @@ struct ocxl_ioctl_attach {
> __u64 reserved3;
> };
>
> +/*
> + * Version contains the version of the struct.
> + * Versions will always be backwards compatible, that is, new versions will not
> + * alter existing fields
> + */
> +struct ocxl_ioctl_get_metadata {

This sounds more like a function name, do we need it to be _get_metdata?

> + __u16 version;
> +
> + // Version 0 fields
> + __u8 afu_version_major;
> + __u8 afu_version_minor;
> + __u32 pasid;
> +
> + __u64 pp_mmio_size;
> + __u64 global_mmio_size;
> +

Should we document the fields? pp_ stands for per process, but is not
very clear at first look. Why do we care to return only the size, what
about lpc size?

> + // End version 0 fields
> +
> + __u64 reserved[13]; // Total of 16*u64
> +};


Balbir Singh.