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[7/7] ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs

Message ID 20180417020950.21446-8-alastair@au1.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series ocxl: Implement Power9 as_notify/wait for OpenCAPI | expand

Commit Message

Alastair D'Silva April 17, 2018, 2:09 a.m. UTC
From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>

Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
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 Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Comments

Andrew Donnellan April 17, 2018, 3:45 a.m. UTC | #1
On 17/04/18 12:09, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@d-silva.org>
> ---
>   Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
> index ddcc58d01cfb..144595a80a1c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
> @@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA:
>     Obtains configuration information from the card, such at the size of
>     MMIO areas, the AFU version, and the PASID for the current context.
>   
> +OCXL_IOCTL_ENABLE_P9_WAIT:
> +
> +  Allows the AFU to wake a userspace thread executing 'wait'. Returns
> +  information to userspace to allow it to configure the AFU.

Note that this is only available on POWER9.

> +
> +OCXL_IOCTL_GET_PLATFORM:
> +
> +  Notifies userspace as to the platform the kernel believes we are on,
> +  which may differ from what userspace believes. Also reports on which CPU
> +  features which are usable from userspace.

The first sentence here doesn't seem to relate to anything that 
GET_PLATFORM actually does - afaict you're just passing flags which I 
suppose imply what the correct platform is, but really they're just 
feature flags?
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diff --git a/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
index ddcc58d01cfb..144595a80a1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst
@@ -157,6 +157,16 @@  OCXL_IOCTL_GET_METADATA:
   Obtains configuration information from the card, such at the size of
   MMIO areas, the AFU version, and the PASID for the current context.
 
+OCXL_IOCTL_ENABLE_P9_WAIT:
+
+  Allows the AFU to wake a userspace thread executing 'wait'. Returns
+  information to userspace to allow it to configure the AFU.
+
+OCXL_IOCTL_GET_PLATFORM:
+
+  Notifies userspace as to the platform the kernel believes we are on,
+  which may differ from what userspace believes. Also reports on which CPU
+  features which are usable from userspace.
 
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