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The sysfs based firmware loader mechanism was created to easily allow userspace to upload firmware images to FPGA cards. This also happens to be pretty suitable to create a user-initiated but kernel-controlled firmware update mechanism for CXL devices, using the CXL specified mailbox commands. Since firmware update commands can be long-running, and can be processed in the background by the endpoint device, it is desirable to have the ability to chunk the firmware transfer down to smaller pieces, so that one operation does not monopolize the mailbox, locking out any other long running background commands entirely - e.g. security commands like 'sanitize' or poison scanning operations. The firmware loader mechanism allows a natural way to perform this chunking, as after each mailbox command, that is restricted to the maximum mailbox payload size, the cxl memdev driver relinquishes control back to the fw_loader system and awaits the next chunk of data to transfer. This opens opportunities for other background commands to access the mailbox and send their own slices of background commands. Add the necessary helpers and state tracking to be able to perform the 'Get FW Info', 'Transfer FW', and 'Activate FW' mailbox commands as described in the CXL spec. Wire these up to the firmware loader callbacks, and register with that system to create the memX/firmware/ sysfs ABI. Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com> Cc: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com> Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602-vv-fw_update-v4-1-c6265bd7343b@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> |
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.