Message ID | 1539900630-26566-1-git-send-email-sstabellini@kernel.org |
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State | Superseded, archived |
Headers | show |
Series | [v2] devicetree,xen: add xen,shared-memory binding | expand |
Context | Check | Description |
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robh/checkpatch | success |
Hi Stefano, On 18/10/2018 23:10, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > From: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xilinx.com> > > Introduce a device tree binding for Xen reserved-memory regions. They > are used to share memory across VMs from the VM config files. (See > static_shm config option.) > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xilinx.com> > --- > Changes in v2: > - fix Author line > - add versioning > - xen,id instead of id > --- > .../bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..9078fb7 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > +* Xen hypervisor reserved-memory binding > + > +Expose one or more memory regions as reserved-memory to the guest > +virtual machine. > Typically, a region is configured at VM creation time > +to be a shared memory area across multiple virtual machines for > +communication among them. > + > +For each of these pre-shared memory regions, a range is exposed under > +the /reserved-memory node as a child node. Each range sub-node is named > +xen-shmem@<address> and has the following properties: > + > +- compatible: > + compatible = "xen,shared-memory-v1", "xen,shared-memory" Do we need to specify the two compatibles? > + > +- reg: > + the base guest physical address and size of the shared memory region > + > +- xen,id: > + a string that identifies the shared memory region as specified in > + the VM config file >
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:27:23AM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > On 18/10/2018 23:10, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > From: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xilinx.com> > > > > Introduce a device tree binding for Xen reserved-memory regions. They > > are used to share memory across VMs from the VM config files. (See > > static_shm config option.) > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefanos@xilinx.com> > > --- > > Changes in v2: > > - fix Author line > > - add versioning > > - xen,id instead of id > > --- > > .../bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > > new file mode 100644 > > index 0000000..9078fb7 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt > > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ > > +* Xen hypervisor reserved-memory binding > > + > > +Expose one or more memory regions as reserved-memory to the guest > > +virtual machine. Typically, a region is configured at VM creation time > > +to be a shared memory area across multiple virtual machines for > > +communication among them. > > + > > +For each of these pre-shared memory regions, a range is exposed under > > +the /reserved-memory node as a child node. Each range sub-node is named > > +xen-shmem@<address> and has the following properties: > > + > > +- compatible: > > + compatible = "xen,shared-memory-v1", "xen,shared-memory" > > Do we need to specify the two compatibles? I'd just drop the fallback as version seems to be just in case. Rob
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9078fb7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/xen,shared-memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +* Xen hypervisor reserved-memory binding + +Expose one or more memory regions as reserved-memory to the guest +virtual machine. Typically, a region is configured at VM creation time +to be a shared memory area across multiple virtual machines for +communication among them. + +For each of these pre-shared memory regions, a range is exposed under +the /reserved-memory node as a child node. Each range sub-node is named +xen-shmem@<address> and has the following properties: + +- compatible: + compatible = "xen,shared-memory-v1", "xen,shared-memory" + +- reg: + the base guest physical address and size of the shared memory region + +- xen,id: + a string that identifies the shared memory region as specified in + the VM config file