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* [PATCH v14 0/9] fw_cfg: add DMA operations & etc/vmcoreinfo support
@ 2018-02-14 14:18 Marc-André Lureau
  2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 1/9] crash: export paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() Marc-André Lureau
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 28+ messages in thread
From: Marc-André Lureau @ 2018-02-14 14:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: bhe, slp, mst, somlo, xiaolong.ye, Marc-André Lureau

Hi,

This series adds DMA operations support to the qemu fw_cfg kernel
module and populates "etc/vmcoreinfo" with vmcoreinfo location
details (entry added since qemu 2.11 with -device vmcoreinfo).

v14:
- add "fw_cfg: add a public uapi header"
- fix sparse warnings & don't introduce new warnings
- add memory barriers to force IO ordering
- split fw_cfg_read_blob() in fw_cfg_read_blob_io() and
  fw_cfg_read_blob_dma()
- add error handling to fw_cfg_read_blob() callers
- minor stylistic changes

v13:
- reorder patch series, introduce DMA write before DMA read
- do some measurements of DMA read speed-ups

v12:
- fix virt_to_phys(NULL) panic with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y
- do not use DMA read, except for kmalloc() memory we allocated
  ourself (only fw_cfg_register_dir_entries() so far)

v11:
- add #include <linux/crash_core.h> in last patch,
  fixing kbuild .config test

Marc-André Lureau (9):
  crash: export paddr_vmcoreinfo_note()
  fw_cfg: add a public uapi header
  fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings in fw_cfg_sel_endianness()
  fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings with fw_cfg_file
  fw_cfg: fix sparse warning reading FW_CFG_ID
  fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings around FW_CFG_FILE_DIR read
  fw_cfg: add DMA register
  fw_cfg: write vmcoreinfo details
  RFC: fw_cfg: do DMA read operation

 MAINTAINERS                    |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 333 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 include/uapi/linux/fw_cfg.h    | 102 +++++++++++++
 kernel/crash_core.c            |   1 +
 4 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/fw_cfg.h

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2.16.1.73.g5832b7e9f2

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2018-02-14 14:18 [PATCH v14 0/9] fw_cfg: add DMA operations & etc/vmcoreinfo support Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 1/9] crash: export paddr_vmcoreinfo_note() Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 2/9] fw_cfg: add a public uapi header Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 19:37   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-15  9:29     ` Marc-Andre Lureau
2018-02-15 18:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-14 20:41   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-15  9:25     ` Marc-Andre Lureau
2018-02-15 18:20       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-15 18:33         ` Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 3/9] fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings in fw_cfg_sel_endianness() Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 20:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-15  9:34     ` Marc-Andre Lureau
2018-02-15 18:25       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 4/9] fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings with fw_cfg_file Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 5/9] fw_cfg: fix sparse warning reading FW_CFG_ID Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 6/9] fw_cfg: fix sparse warnings around FW_CFG_FILE_DIR read Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 7/9] fw_cfg: add DMA register Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 8/9] fw_cfg: write vmcoreinfo details Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-15 18:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-15 18:24     ` Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-15 18:35       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-14 14:18 ` [PATCH v14 9/9] RFC: fw_cfg: do DMA read operation Marc-André Lureau
2018-02-14 16:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-14 16:52     ` Marc-Andre Lureau
2018-02-14 16:59       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-14 17:08         ` Marc-Andre Lureau
2018-02-14 17:12           ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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