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authorMatthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-08-13 21:47:53 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>2015-08-26 18:05:39 -0700
commit2cb79266d6b229dbebd31fe114af1bdab25c8076 (patch)
tree1b90c42981d18836586209f618330d9617698eb2 /Documentation/powerpc
parent65be2c79acc3aa0f9c0e8d4871f5a451d854465a (diff)
cxlflash: Virtual LUN support
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this adapter. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt63
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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt
index f943967f90ce..4202d1bc583c 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/cxlflash.txt
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH
- These tokens are only valid for the process under which they
were created. The child of a forked process cannot continue
- to use the context id or file descriptor created by its parent.
+ to use the context id or file descriptor created by its parent
+ (see DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_CLONE for further details).
- These tokens are only valid for the lifetime of the context and
the process under which they were created. Once either is
@@ -193,6 +194,45 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_USER_DIRECT
treated as a resource handle that is returned to the user. The user
is then able to use the handle to reference the LUN during I/O.
+DK_CXLFLASH_USER_VIRTUAL
+------------------------
+ This ioctl is responsible for transitioning the LUN to virtual mode
+ of access and configuring the AFU for virtual access from user space
+ on a per-context basis. Additionally, the block size and last logical
+ block address (LBA) are returned to the user.
+
+ As mentioned previously, when operating in user space access mode,
+ LUNs may be accessed in whole or in part. Only one mode is allowed
+ at a time and if one mode is active (outstanding references exist),
+ requests to use the LUN in a different mode are denied.
+
+ The AFU is configured for virtual access from user space by adding
+ an entry to the AFU's resource handle table. The index of the entry
+ is treated as a resource handle that is returned to the user. The
+ user is then able to use the handle to reference the LUN during I/O.
+
+ By default, the virtual LUN is created with a size of 0. The user
+ would need to use the DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_RESIZE ioctl to adjust the grow
+ the virtual LUN to a desired size. To avoid having to perform this
+ resize for the initial creation of the virtual LUN, the user has the
+ option of specifying a size as part of the DK_CXLFLASH_USER_VIRTUAL
+ ioctl, such that when success is returned to the user, the
+ resource handle that is provided is already referencing provisioned
+ storage. This is reflected by the last LBA being a non-zero value.
+
+DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_RESIZE
+-----------------------
+ This ioctl is responsible for resizing a previously created virtual
+ LUN and will fail if invoked upon a LUN that is not in virtual
+ mode. Upon success, an updated last LBA is returned to the user
+ indicating the new size of the virtual LUN associated with the
+ resource handle.
+
+ The partitioning of virtual LUNs is jointly mediated by the cxlflash
+ driver and the AFU. An allocation table is kept for each LUN that is
+ operating in the virtual mode and used to program a LUN translation
+ table that the AFU references when provided with a resource handle.
+
DK_CXLFLASH_RELEASE
-------------------
This ioctl is responsible for releasing a previously obtained
@@ -214,6 +254,27 @@ DK_CXLFLASH_DETACH
success, all "tokens" which had been provided to the user from the
DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH onward are no longer valid.
+DK_CXLFLASH_VLUN_CLONE
+----------------------
+ This ioctl is responsible for cloning a previously created
+ context to a more recently created context. It exists solely to
+ support maintaining user space access to storage after a process
+ forks. Upon success, the child process (which invoked the ioctl)
+ will have access to the same LUNs via the same resource handle(s)
+ and fd2 as the parent, but under a different context.
+
+ Context sharing across processes is not supported with CXL and
+ therefore each fork must be met with establishing a new context
+ for the child process. This ioctl simplifies the state management
+ and playback required by a user in such a scenario. When a process
+ forks, child process can clone the parents context by first creating
+ a context (via DK_CXLFLASH_ATTACH) and then using this ioctl to
+ perform the clone from the parent to the child.
+
+ The clone itself is fairly simple. The resource handle and lun
+ translation tables are copied from the parent context to the child's
+ and then synced with the AFU.
+
DK_CXLFLASH_VERIFY
------------------
This ioctl is used to detect various changes such as the capacity of