Re: [RESEND PATCH v11 1/2] uio: uio_dfl: add userspace i/o driver for DFL bus

[Moritz Fischer]

Hi Greg,

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 04:42:55PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:27:03PM +0800, Xu Yilun wrote:
> > This patch supports the DFL drivers be written in userspace. This is
> > realized by exposing the userspace I/O device interfaces.
> > 
> > The driver now only binds the ether group feature, which has no irq. So
> > the irq support is not implemented yet.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v9: switch to add a uio driver in drivers/uio
> > v10: add the source file in MAINTAINERS
> >      more descriptive Kconfig header
> >      add detailed path for opae uio example
> > v11: no change
> > ---
> >  MAINTAINERS           |  1 +
> >  drivers/uio/Kconfig   | 17 +++++++++++++
> >  drivers/uio/Makefile  |  1 +
> >  drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  4 files changed, 85 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index 000fe0b..4dc0354 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -6943,6 +6943,7 @@ S:	Maintained
> >  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-dfl*
> >  F:	Documentation/fpga/dfl.rst
> >  F:	drivers/fpga/dfl*
> > +F:	drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c
> >  F:	include/linux/dfl.h
> >  F:	include/uapi/linux/fpga-dfl.h
> >  
> > diff --git a/drivers/uio/Kconfig b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
> > index 202ee81..5531f3a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/uio/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/uio/Kconfig
> > @@ -165,4 +165,21 @@ config UIO_HV_GENERIC
> >  	  to network and storage devices from userspace.
> >  
> >  	  If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_hv_generic.
> > +
> > +config UIO_DFL
> > +	tristate "Generic driver for DFL (Device Feature List) bus"
> > +	depends on FPGA_DFL
> > +	help
> > +	  Generic DFL (Device Feature List) driver for Userspace I/O devices.
> > +	  It is useful to provide direct access to DFL devices from userspace.
> > +	  A sample userspace application using this driver is available for
> > +	  download in a git repository:
> > +
> > +	    git clone https://github.com/OPAE/opae-sdk.git
> > +
> > +	  It could be found at:
> > +
> > +	    opae-sdk/tools/libopaeuio/
> > +
> > +	  If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_dfl.
> >  endif
> > diff --git a/drivers/uio/Makefile b/drivers/uio/Makefile
> > index c285dd2..f2f416a1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/uio/Makefile
> > +++ b/drivers/uio/Makefile
> > @@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_PRUSS)         += uio_pruss.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_MF624)         += uio_mf624.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_FSL_ELBC_GPCM)	+= uio_fsl_elbc_gpcm.o
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_HV_GENERIC)	+= uio_hv_generic.o
> > +obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_DFL)	+= uio_dfl.o
> > diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c b/drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..89c0fc7
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/uio/uio_dfl.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +/*
> > + * Generic DFL driver for Userspace I/O devicess
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2021 Intel Corporation, Inc.
> > + */
> > +#include <linux/dfl.h>
> > +#include <linux/errno.h>
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/uio_driver.h>
> > +
> > +#define DRIVER_NAME "uio_dfl"
> > +
> > +static int uio_dfl_probe(struct dfl_device *ddev)
> > +{
> > +	struct resource *r = &ddev->mmio_res;
> > +	struct device *dev = &ddev->dev;
> > +	struct uio_info *uioinfo;
> > +	struct uio_mem *uiomem;
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	uioinfo = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(struct uio_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	if (!uioinfo)
> > +		return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > +	uioinfo->name = DRIVER_NAME;
> > +	uioinfo->version = "0";
> > +
> > +	uiomem = &uioinfo->mem[0];
> > +	uiomem->memtype = UIO_MEM_PHYS;
> > +	uiomem->addr = r->start & PAGE_MASK;
> > +	uiomem->offs = r->start & ~PAGE_MASK;
> > +	uiomem->size = (uiomem->offs + resource_size(r)
> > +			+ PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
> > +	uiomem->name = r->name;
> > +
> > +	/* Irq is yet to be supported */
> > +	uioinfo->irq = UIO_IRQ_NONE;
> > +
> > +	ret = devm_uio_register_device(dev, uioinfo);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		dev_err(dev, "unable to register uio device\n");
> > +
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > +
> > +#define FME_FEATURE_ID_ETH_GROUP	0x10
> 
> Why are you saying that an ethernet driver should be using the UIO
> interface?
> 
> And why can't you use the existing UIO drivers that bind to memory
> regions specified by firmware?  Without an interrupt being used, why is
> UIO needed at all?

That was an earlier version -- which from your comments you didn't seem
to like :) Maybe miscommunication.

Essentially I see two options:
- Have a DFL bus driver instantiate a platform driver (uio_pdrv_genirq)
  which I *think* you described above?
- What this patch implements -- a UIO driver on the DFL bus

These FPGA devices can on the fly change their contents and -- even if
just for test -- being able to expose a bunch of registers via UIO can
be extremely useful.

Whether a device should expose registers or not should be up to the
implemeneter of the FPGA design I think (policy). This patch (or the
previous version) provides a mechanism to do so via DFL.

This is similar in nature to uio_pdrv_genirq on a DT based platform, to
expose the registers you instantiate the DT node.

Re-implementing a new driver for each of these instances doesn't seem
desirable and tying DFL as enumeration mechanism to UIO seems like a
good compromise for enabling this kind of functionality.

Note this is *not* an attempt to bypass the network stack or other
existing subsystems.

Cheers,

Moritz