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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/virtio_ring.h, branch v4.11-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>virtio: Add improved queue allocation API</title>
<updated>2016-03-02T15:01:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2016-02-03T05:46:37+00:00</published>
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This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it
adds two new improved APIs:

vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically
allocated coherent memory.  (Some day it this could be extended to
support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform
on which it's worthwhile.)

__vring_new_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue with a manually-specified
layout.  This should allow mic_virtio to work much more cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it
adds two new improved APIs:

vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically
allocated coherent memory.  (Some day it this could be extended to
support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform
on which it's worthwhile.)

__vring_new_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue with a manually-specified
layout.  This should allow mic_virtio to work much more cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>virtio_ring: use virt_store_mb</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T18:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-12-17T10:20:39+00:00</published>
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We need a full barrier after writing out event index, using
virt_store_mb there seems better than open-coding.  As usual, we need a
wrapper to account for strong barriers.

It's tempting to use this in vhost as well, for that, we'll
need a variant of smp_store_mb that works on __user pointers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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We need a full barrier after writing out event index, using
virt_store_mb there seems better than open-coding.  As usual, we need a
wrapper to account for strong barriers.

It's tempting to use this in vhost as well, for that, we'll
need a variant of smp_store_mb that works on __user pointers.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>virtio_ring: update weak barriers to use virt_xxx</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T18:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2015-12-27T15:55:35+00:00</published>
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virtio ring uses smp_wmb on SMP and wmb on !SMP,
the reason for the later being that it might be
talking to another kernel on the same SMP machine.

This is exactly what virt_xxx barriers do,
so switch to these instead of homegrown ifdef hacks.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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virtio ring uses smp_wmb on SMP and wmb on !SMP,
the reason for the later being that it might be
talking to another kernel on the same SMP machine.

This is exactly what virt_xxx barriers do,
so switch to these instead of homegrown ifdef hacks.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>Revert "virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb"</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T18:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-20T11:52:10+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 9e1a27ea42691429e31f158cce6fc61bc79bb2e9.

While that commit optimizes !CONFIG_SMP, it mixes
up DMA and SMP concepts, making the code hard
to figure out.

A better way to optimize this is with the new __smp_XXX
barriers.

As a first step, go back to full rmb/wmb barriers
for !SMP.
We switch to __smp_XXX barriers in the next patch.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 9e1a27ea42691429e31f158cce6fc61bc79bb2e9.

While that commit optimizes !CONFIG_SMP, it mixes
up DMA and SMP concepts, making the code hard
to figure out.

A better way to optimize this is with the new __smp_XXX
barriers.

As a first step, go back to full rmb/wmb barriers
for !SMP.
We switch to __smp_XXX barriers in the next patch.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.duyck@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<title>virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T11:34:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T11:33:49+00:00</published>
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This change makes it so that instead of using smp_wmb/rmb which varies
depending on the kernel configuration we can can use dma_wmb/rmb which for
most architectures should be equal to or slightly more strict than
smp_wmb/rmb.

The advantage to this is that these barriers are available to uniprocessor
builds as well so the performance should improve under such a
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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This change makes it so that instead of using smp_wmb/rmb which varies
depending on the kernel configuration we can can use dma_wmb/rmb which for
most architectures should be equal to or slightly more strict than
smp_wmb/rmb.

The advantage to this is that these barriers are available to uniprocessor
builds as well so the performance should improve under such a
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio_ring: change host notification API</title>
<updated>2013-10-29T00:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Graalfs</name>
<email>graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-28T23:08:50+00:00</published>
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Currently a host kick error is silently ignored and not reflected in
the virtqueue of a particular virtio device.

Changing the notify API for guest-&gt;host notification seems to be one
prerequisite in order to be able to handle such errors in the context
where the kick is triggered.

This patch changes the notify API. The notify function must return a
bool return value. It returns false if the host notification failed.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs &lt;graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Currently a host kick error is silently ignored and not reflected in
the virtqueue of a particular virtio device.

Changing the notify API for guest-&gt;host notification seems to be one
prerequisite in order to be able to handle such errors in the context
where the kick is triggered.

This patch changes the notify API. The notify function must return a
bool return value. It returns false if the host notification failed.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs &lt;graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>virtio: include asm/barrier explicitly</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T01:17:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-08T02:01:06+00:00</published>
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virtio_ring.h uses mb() and friends, make
it pull in asm/barrier.h itself, not rely
on other headers to do it.

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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virtio_ring.h uses mb() and friends, make
it pull in asm/barrier.h itself, not rely
on other headers to do it.

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: expose virtio barriers for use in vringh.</title>
<updated>2013-03-20T03:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T02:52:19+00:00</published>
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The host side of ring needs this logic too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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The host side of ring needs this logic too.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux</title>
<updated>2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue</title>
<updated>2012-09-28T05:35:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>jasowang@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2012-08-28T11:54:13+00:00</published>
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Instead of storing the queue index in transport-specific virtio structs,
this patch moves them to vring_virtqueue and introduces an helper to get
the value.  This lets drivers simplify their management and tracing of
virtqueues.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Instead of storing the queue index in transport-specific virtio structs,
this patch moves them to vring_virtqueue and introduces an helper to get
the value.  This lets drivers simplify their management and tracing of
virtqueues.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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