[PATCH v5 fwctl 0/3] fwctl/bnxt: DMA buffer support for HWRM commands

[Pavan Chebbi]

Several HWRM (HardWare Resource Manager) commands used for diagnostics,
firmware management, and NVM access carry one or more DMA address fields
in their input structures.  Until now these commands could not be issued
through the fwctl interface because the driver had no mechanism to safely
broker the host-side DMA buffers on userspace's behalf.

This series adds that mechanism in three steps.

In patch #1, the fwctl core UAPI adds a new driver_data field in struct
fwctl_rpc.  Drivers that need a driver_data payload receive the value and
are free to interpret it. Drivers that do not define one will reject any
non-zero value with -EOPNOTSUPP.  Existing mlx5 and pds fwctl drivers are
updated accordingly.

In patch #2, the bnxt HSI header is updated to add the missing struct
definitions for the HWRM commands that the bnxt fwctl driver will support.

In patch #3, the bnxt fwctl driver consumes driver_data as a pointer to
a new bnxt UAPI struct fwctl_bnxt_driver_data, which describes indirect
DMA buffers.

v5: In patch #3, addressed the issues found by sashiko and Jason as follows:
 - Simplify the DMA buffer uAPI: drop the len field from struct
   fwctl_bnxt_buf. The driver will derive each buffer's required length
   from the HWRM command itself, either the transfer-length field named in
   the request, or a fixed/maximum size.
 - Tighten the condition to do a exact match for the DMA buffers' count
 - Validate in_len against each command's actual HWRM input struct size
 - Switch DMA bounce buffers from kvzalloc() + dma_map_single() to
   dma_alloc_coherent()
 - Use kvzalloc() instead of kzalloc() for response buffer
 - Reduce FWCTL_BNXT_MAX_DMABUF to 64k as that is sufficient for the
   commands we are supporting

v4: Collected Rb tag from Dave for patch #1. Thanks Dave

v3: In patch #3, remove include of linux/sizes.h from UAPI header bnxt.h

v2: In patch #1, update all the drivers that implement fw_rpc to check
driver_data. In patch #2, add another HWRM command that I had missed in v1.
In patch #3, update the allow-list and timeout tables for the additional
commands.

Pavan Chebbi (3):
  fwctl: Add driver_data field to fwctl_rpc
  bnxt_en: Update bnxt firmware spec
  fwctl/bnxt: add DMA buffer support for HWRM commands

 drivers/cxl/core/features.c |   6 +-
 drivers/fwctl/bnxt/main.c   | 483 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/fwctl/main.c        |   3 +-
 drivers/fwctl/mlx5/main.c   |   6 +-
 drivers/fwctl/pds/main.c    |   6 +-
 include/linux/bnxt/hsi.h    | 585 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/fwctl.h       |   8 +-
 include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h   |  35 +++
 include/uapi/fwctl/fwctl.h  |   3 +
 9 files changed, 1125 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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