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vmxnet3: introduce generalized command interface to configure the device 

Shared memory is used to exchange information between the vmxnet3 driver
and the emulation. In order to request emulation to perform a task, the
driver first populates specific fields in this shared memory and then
issues corresponding command by writing to the command register(CMD). The
layout of the shared memory was defined by vmxnet3 version 1 and cannot
be extended for every new command without breaking backward compatibility.

To address this problem, in vmxnet3 version 3, the emulation repurposed
a reserved field in the shared memory to represent command information
instead. For new commands, the driver first populates the command
information field in the shared memory and then issues the command. The
emulation interprets the data written to the command information depending
on the type of the command. This patch exposes this capability to the driver.

Signed-off-by: Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Shrikrishna Khare 2016-06-16 10:51:54 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 190af10f0b
commit f35c7480f8
1 changed files with 21 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_defs.h
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@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ enum {
VMXNET3_CMD_RESERVED1,
VMXNET3_CMD_LOAD_PLUGIN,
VMXNET3_CMD_RESERVED2,
VMXNET3_CMD_RESERVED3,
VMXNET3_CMD_FIRST_GET = 0xF00D0000,
VMXNET3_CMD_GET_QUEUE_STATUS = VMXNET3_CMD_FIRST_GET,
@ -612,6 +613,18 @@ struct Vmxnet3_RxQueueDesc {
u8 __pad[88]; /* 128 aligned */
};
struct Vmxnet3_SetPolling {
u8 enablePolling;
};
/* If the command data <= 16 bytes, use the shared memory directly.
* otherwise, use variable length configuration descriptor.
*/
union Vmxnet3_CmdInfo {
struct Vmxnet3_VariableLenConfDesc varConf;
struct Vmxnet3_SetPolling setPolling;
__le64 data[2];
};
struct Vmxnet3_DSDevRead {
/* read-only region for device, read by dev in response to a SET cmd */
@ -630,7 +643,14 @@ struct Vmxnet3_DriverShared {
__le32 pad;
struct Vmxnet3_DSDevRead devRead;
__le32 ecr;
__le32 reserved[5];
__le32 reserved;
union {
__le32 reserved1[4];
union Vmxnet3_CmdInfo cmdInfo; /* only valid in the context of
* executing the relevant
* command
*/
} cu;
};