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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>virtio: add_buf_gfp</title>
<updated>2010-05-19T12:45:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-04-29T14:26:37+00:00</published>
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Add an add_buf variant that gets gfp parameter. Use that
to allocate indirect buffers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Add an add_buf variant that gets gfp parameter. Use that
to allocate indirect buffers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio_ring: remove a level of indirection</title>
<updated>2010-05-19T12:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-04-12T13:19:07+00:00</published>
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We have a single virtqueue_ops implementation,
and it seems unlikely we'll get another one
at this point. So let's remove an unnecessary
level of indirection: it would be very easy to
re-add it if another implementation surfaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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We have a single virtqueue_ops implementation,
and it seems unlikely we'll get another one
at this point. So let's remove an unnecessary
level of indirection: it would be very easy to
re-add it if another implementation surfaces.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: add virtqueue_ vq_ops wrappers</title>
<updated>2010-05-19T12:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-12T13:18:25+00:00</published>
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Add inline functions that wrap vq-&gt;vq_ops-&gt; calls

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Add inline functions that wrap vq-&gt;vq_ops-&gt; calls

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>net/9p: Add sysfs mount_tag file for virtio 9P device</title>
<updated>2010-03-13T14:57:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-06T04:44:15+00:00</published>
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This adds a new file for virtio 9P device. The file
contain details of the mount device name that should
be used to mount the 9P file system.

Ex: /sys/devices/virtio-pci/virtio1/mount_tag  file now
contian the tag name to be used to mount the 9P file system.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
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This adds a new file for virtio 9P device. The file
contain details of the mount device name that should
be used to mount the 9P file system.

Ex: /sys/devices/virtio-pci/virtio1/mount_tag  file now
contian the tag name to be used to mount the 9P file system.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen &lt;ericvh@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: Add ability to detach unused buffers from vrings</title>
<updated>2010-02-24T03:52:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shirley Ma</name>
<email>mashirle@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-18T13:45:23+00:00</published>
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There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
add a new hook to do this.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma &lt;xma@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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There's currently no way for a virtio driver to ask for unused
buffers, so it has to keep a list itself to reclaim them at shutdown.
This is redundant, since virtio_ring stores that information.  So
add a new hook to do this.

Signed-off-by: Shirley Ma &lt;xma@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah &lt;amit.shah@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: make add_buf return capacity remaining</title>
<updated>2009-09-23T12:56:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T04:26:31+00:00</published>
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This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity
remains for buffers.  It's necessarily fuzzy, since
VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors
in one, *if* we can kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti &lt;dineshs@us.ibm.com&gt;
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This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity
remains for buffers.  It's necessarily fuzzy, since
VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors
in one, *if* we can kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti &lt;dineshs@us.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: add names to virtqueue struct, mapping from devices to queues.</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T12:46:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-13T04:16:35+00:00</published>
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Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Add a linked list of all virtqueues for a virtio device: this helps for
debugging and is also needed for upcoming interface change.

Also, add a "name" field for clearer debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: fix obsolete documentation on probe function</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T12:46:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-13T04:16:33+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: explicit advertisement of driver features</title>
<updated>2008-05-02T11:50:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-03T02:50:50+00:00</published>
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A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature
negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns.

There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I
didn't notice when it was violated.

So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports
in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio
core.  The intersection of device and driver features are presented in
a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device.

Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long
bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a
straight-forward little-endian array of bytes.

Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they
really have to.

API changes:
- dev-&gt;config-&gt;feature() no longer gets and acks a feature.
- drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field
- use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
some flaws in the API: in particular, we assume that feature
negotiation is complete once a driver's probe function returns.

There is nothing in the API to require this, however, and even I
didn't notice when it was violated.

So instead, we require the driver to specify what features it supports
in a table, we can then move the feature negotiation into the virtio
core.  The intersection of device and driver features are presented in
a new 'features' bitmap in the struct virtio_device.

Note that this highlights the difference between Linux unsigned-long
bitmaps where each unsigned long is in native endian, and a
straight-forward little-endian array of bytes.

Drivers can still remove feature bits in their probe routine if they
really have to.

API changes:
- dev-&gt;config-&gt;feature() no longer gets and acks a feature.
- drivers should advertise their features in the 'feature_table' field
- use virtio_has_feature() for extra sanity when checking feature bits

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio: remove overzealous BUG_ON.</title>
<updated>2008-04-07T20:14:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-07T04:30:28+00:00</published>
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The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.

Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
protection can be easily tripped even on UP.

Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Balaji Rao &lt;balajirrao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The 'disable_cb' callback is designed as an optimization to tell the host
we don't need callbacks now.  As it is not reliable, the debug check is
overzealous: it can happen on two CPUs at the same time.  Document this.

Even if it were reliable, the virtio_net driver doesn't disable
callbacks on transmit so the START_USE/END_USE debugging reentrance
protection can be easily tripped even on UP.

Thanks to Balaji Rao for the bug report and testing.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Balaji Rao &lt;balajirrao@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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