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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/virtio.h, branch v3.0.16</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>virtio: add api for delayed callbacks</title>
<updated>2011-05-30T01:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-19T23:11:14+00:00</published>
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Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks
should be delayed until a lot of work has been done.
Implement using the new event_idx feature.

Note: it might seem advantageous to let the drivers
ask for a callback after a specific capacity has
been reached. However, as a single head can
free many entries in the descriptor table,
we don't really have a clue about capacity
until get_buf is called. The API is the simplest
to implement at the moment, we'll see what kind of
hints drivers can pass when there's more than one
user of the feature.

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 API that tells the other side that callbacks
should be delayed until a lot of work has been done.
Implement using the new event_idx feature.

Note: it might seem advantageous to let the drivers
ask for a callback after a specific capacity has
been reached. However, as a single head can
free many entries in the descriptor table,
we don't really have a clue about capacity
until get_buf is called. The API is the simplest
to implement at the moment, we'll see what kind of
hints drivers can pass when there's more than one
user of the feature.

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_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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<entry>
<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>
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<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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