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2015-07-04NTB: Add ping pong test clientAllen Hubbe
This is a simple ping pong driver that exercises the scratch pads and doorbells of the ntb hardware. This driver may be used to test that your ntb hardware and drivers are functioning at a basic level. Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
2015-07-04NTB: Split ntb_hw_intel and ntb_transport driversAllen Hubbe
Change ntb_hw_intel to use the new NTB hardware abstraction layer. Split ntb_transport into its own driver. Change it to use the new NTB hardware abstraction layer. Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
2015-07-04NTB: Add NTB hardware abstraction layerAllen Hubbe
Abstract the NTB device behind a programming interface, so that it can support different hardware and client drivers. Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
2015-07-02NTB: Move files in preparation for NTB abstractionAllen Hubbe
This patch only moves files to their new locations, before applying the next two patches adding the NTB Abstraction layer. Splitting this patch from the next is intended make distinct which code is changed only due to moving the files, versus which are substantial code changes in adding the NTB Abstraction layer. Signed-off-by: Allen Hubbe <Allen.Hubbe@emc.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
2013-01-17PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge SupportJon Mason
A PCI-Express non-transparent bridge (NTB) is a point-to-point PCIe bus connecting 2 systems, providing electrical isolation between the two subsystems. A non-transparent bridge is functionally similar to a transparent bridge except that both sides of the bridge have their own independent address domains. The host on one side of the bridge will not have the visibility of the complete memory or I/O space on the other side of the bridge. To communicate across the non-transparent bridge, each NTB endpoint has one (or more) apertures exposed to the local system. Writes to these apertures are mirrored to memory on the remote system. Communications can also occur through the use of doorbell registers that initiate interrupts to the alternate domain, and scratch-pad registers accessible from both sides. The NTB device driver is needed to configure these memory windows, doorbell, and scratch-pad registers as well as use them in such a way as they can be turned into a viable communication channel to the remote system. ntb_hw.[ch] determines the usage model (NTB to NTB or NTB to Root Port) and abstracts away the underlying hardware to provide access and a common interface to the doorbell registers, scratch pads, and memory windows. These hardware interfaces are exported so that other, non-mainlined kernel drivers can access these. ntb_transport.[ch] also uses the exported interfaces in ntb_hw.[ch] to setup a communication channel(s) and provide a reliable way of transferring data from one side to the other, which it then exports so that "client" drivers can access them. These client drivers are used to provide a standard kernel interface (i.e., Ethernet device) to NTB, such that Linux can transfer data from one system to the other in a standard way. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>