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authorXie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>2021-08-31 18:36:33 +0800
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2021-09-06 07:20:58 -0400
commitc8a6153b6c59d95c0e091f053f6f180952ade91e (patch)
tree549e205443878613acbc8a4f989a24c61fa540d9 /drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
parent8c773d53fb7b64267b0f55c1d3517cb8c5e29b3c (diff)
vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
This VDUSE driver enables implementing software-emulated vDPA devices in userspace. The vDPA device is created by ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on /dev/vduse/control. Then a char device interface (/dev/vduse/$NAME) is exported to userspace for device emulation. In order to make the device emulation more secure, the device's control path is handled in kernel. A message mechnism is introduced to forward some dataplane related control messages to userspace. And in the data path, the DMA buffer will be mapped into userspace address space through different ways depending on the vDPA bus to which the vDPA device is attached. In virtio-vdpa case, the MMU-based software IOTLB is used to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the DMA buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared to the VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd. For more details on VDUSE design and usage, please see the follow-on Documentation commit. NB(mst): when merging this with b542e383d8c0 ("eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit") replace eventfd_signal_count with eventfd_signal_allowed, and drop the previous ("eventfd: Export eventfd_wake_count to modules"). Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210831103634.33-13-xieyongji@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig b/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
index e48e2b10ca36..3d91982d8371 100644
--- a/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
@@ -33,6 +33,16 @@ config VDPA_SIM_BLOCK
vDPA block device simulator which terminates IO request in a
memory buffer.
+config VDPA_USER
+ tristate "VDUSE (vDPA Device in Userspace) support"
+ depends on EVENTFD && MMU && HAS_DMA
+ select DMA_OPS
+ select VHOST_IOTLB
+ select IOMMU_IOVA
+ help
+ With VDUSE it is possible to emulate a vDPA Device
+ in a userspace program.
+
config IFCVF
tristate "Intel IFC VF vDPA driver"
depends on PCI_MSI