On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 03:32:56PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri
wrote:> Some hypervisors may not support MMIO transport i.e trap config
> space access and have it be handled by backend driver. They may
> allow other ways to interact with backend such as message-queue
> or doorbell API. This patch allows for hypervisor specific
> methods for config space IO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 131
++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> include/linux/virtio.h | 14 +++++
> 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
> index 97d5725..69bfa35 100644
> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c
> @@ -100,7 +100,35 @@ struct virtio_mmio_vq_info {
> struct list_head node;
> };
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_OPS
>
> +static struct virtio_mmio_ops *mmio_ops;
> +
> +#define virtio_readb(a) mmio_ops->mmio_readl((a))
> +#define virtio_readw(a) mmio_ops->mmio_readl((a))
> +#define virtio_readl(a) mmio_ops->mmio_readl((a))
> +#define virtio_writeb(val, a) mmio_ops->mmio_writeb((val), (a))
> +#define virtio_writew(val, a) mmio_ops->mmio_writew((val), (a))
> +#define virtio_writel(val, a) mmio_ops->mmio_writel((val), (a))
How exactly are these ops hooked up? I'm envisaging something like:
ops = spec_compliant_ops;
[...]
if (firmware_says_hypervisor_is_buggy())
ops = magic_qcom_ops;
am I wrong?
> +int register_virtio_mmio_ops(struct virtio_mmio_ops *ops)
> +{
> + pr_info("Registered %s as mmio ops\n", ops->name);
> + mmio_ops = ops;
Not looking good, and really defeats the point of standardising this stuff
imo.
Will
