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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt | 219 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/raid5.c | 17 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c1e9545c59bd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt | |||
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| 1 | Asynchronous Transfers/Transforms API | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | 1 INTRODUCTION | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | 2 GENEALOGY | ||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | 3 USAGE | ||
| 8 | 3.1 General format of the API | ||
| 9 | 3.2 Supported operations | ||
| 10 | 3.3 Descriptor management | ||
| 11 | 3.4 When does the operation execute? | ||
| 12 | 3.5 When does the operation complete? | ||
| 13 | 3.6 Constraints | ||
| 14 | 3.7 Example | ||
| 15 | |||
| 16 | 4 DRIVER DEVELOPER NOTES | ||
| 17 | 4.1 Conformance points | ||
| 18 | 4.2 "My application needs finer control of hardware channels" | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | 5 SOURCE | ||
| 21 | |||
| 22 | --- | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | 1 INTRODUCTION | ||
| 25 | |||
| 26 | The async_tx API provides methods for describing a chain of asynchronous | ||
| 27 | bulk memory transfers/transforms with support for inter-transactional | ||
| 28 | dependencies. It is implemented as a dmaengine client that smooths over | ||
| 29 | the details of different hardware offload engine implementations. Code | ||
| 30 | that is written to the API can optimize for asynchronous operation and | ||
| 31 | the API will fit the chain of operations to the available offload | ||
| 32 | resources. | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | 2 GENEALOGY | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | The API was initially designed to offload the memory copy and | ||
| 37 | xor-parity-calculations of the md-raid5 driver using the offload engines | ||
| 38 | present in the Intel(R) Xscale series of I/O processors. It also built | ||
| 39 | on the 'dmaengine' layer developed for offloading memory copies in the | ||
| 40 | network stack using Intel(R) I/OAT engines. The following design | ||
| 41 | features surfaced as a result: | ||
| 42 | 1/ implicit synchronous path: users of the API do not need to know if | ||
| 43 | the platform they are running on has offload capabilities. The | ||
| 44 | operation will be offloaded when an engine is available and carried out | ||
| 45 | in software otherwise. | ||
| 46 | 2/ cross channel dependency chains: the API allows a chain of dependent | ||
| 47 | operations to be submitted, like xor->copy->xor in the raid5 case. The | ||
| 48 | API automatically handles cases where the transition from one operation | ||
| 49 | to another implies a hardware channel switch. | ||
| 50 | 3/ dmaengine extensions to support multiple clients and operation types | ||
| 51 | beyond 'memcpy' | ||
| 52 | |||
| 53 | 3 USAGE | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | 3.1 General format of the API: | ||
| 56 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor * | ||
| 57 | async_<operation>(<op specific parameters>, | ||
| 58 | enum async_tx_flags flags, | ||
| 59 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *dependency, | ||
| 60 | dma_async_tx_callback callback_routine, | ||
| 61 | void *callback_parameter); | ||
| 62 | |||
| 63 | 3.2 Supported operations: | ||
| 64 | memcpy - memory copy between a source and a destination buffer | ||
| 65 | memset - fill a destination buffer with a byte value | ||
| 66 | xor - xor a series of source buffers and write the result to a | ||
| 67 | destination buffer | ||
| 68 | xor_zero_sum - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the | ||
| 69 | result is zero. The implementation attempts to prevent | ||
| 70 | writes to memory | ||
| 71 | |||
| 72 | 3.3 Descriptor management: | ||
| 73 | The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation | ||
| 74 | has been queued to execute asynchronously. Descriptors are recycled | ||
| 75 | resources, under control of the offload engine driver, to be reused as | ||
| 76 | operations complete. When an application needs to submit a chain of | ||
| 77 | operations it must guarantee that the descriptor is not automatically recycled | ||
| 78 | before the dependency is submitted. This requires that all descriptors be | ||
| 79 | acknowledged by the application before the offload engine driver is allowed to | ||
| 80 | recycle (or free) the descriptor. A descriptor can be acked by one of the | ||
| 81 | following methods: | ||
| 82 | 1/ setting the ASYNC_TX_ACK flag if no child operations are to be submitted | ||
| 83 | 2/ setting the ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag to acknowledge the parent | ||
| 84 | descriptor of a new operation. | ||
| 85 | 3/ calling async_tx_ack() on the descriptor. | ||
| 86 | |||
| 87 | 3.4 When does the operation execute? | ||
| 88 | Operations do not immediately issue after return from the | ||
| 89 | async_<operation> call. Offload engine drivers batch operations to | ||
| 90 | improve performance by reducing the number of mmio cycles needed to | ||
| 91 | manage the channel. Once a driver-specific threshold is met the driver | ||
| 92 | automatically issues pending operations. An application can force this | ||
| 93 | event by calling async_tx_issue_pending_all(). This operates on all | ||
| 94 | channels since the application has no knowledge of channel to operation | ||
| 95 | mapping. | ||
| 96 | |||
| 97 | 3.5 When does the operation complete? | ||
| 98 | There are two methods for an application to learn about the completion | ||
| 99 | of an operation. | ||
| 100 | 1/ Call dma_wait_for_async_tx(). This call causes the CPU to spin while | ||
| 101 | it polls for the completion of the operation. It handles dependency | ||
| 102 | chains and issuing pending operations. | ||
| 103 | 2/ Specify a completion callback. The callback routine runs in tasklet | ||
| 104 | context if the offload engine driver supports interrupts, or it is | ||
| 105 | called in application context if the operation is carried out | ||
| 106 | synchronously in software. The callback can be set in the call to | ||
| 107 | async_<operation>, or when the application needs to submit a chain of | ||
| 108 | unknown length it can use the async_trigger_callback() routine to set a | ||
| 109 | completion interrupt/callback at the end of the chain. | ||
| 110 | |||
| 111 | 3.6 Constraints: | ||
| 112 | 1/ Calls to async_<operation> are not permitted in IRQ context. Other | ||
| 113 | contexts are permitted provided constraint #2 is not violated. | ||
| 114 | 2/ Completion callback routines cannot submit new operations. This | ||
| 115 | results in recursion in the synchronous case and spin_locks being | ||
| 116 | acquired twice in the asynchronous case. | ||
| 117 | |||
| 118 | 3.7 Example: | ||
| 119 | Perform a xor->copy->xor operation where each operation depends on the | ||
| 120 | result from the previous operation: | ||
| 121 | |||
| 122 | void complete_xor_copy_xor(void *param) | ||
| 123 | { | ||
| 124 | printk("complete\n"); | ||
| 125 | } | ||
| 126 | |||
| 127 | int run_xor_copy_xor(struct page **xor_srcs, | ||
| 128 | int xor_src_cnt, | ||
| 129 | struct page *xor_dest, | ||
| 130 | size_t xor_len, | ||
| 131 | struct page *copy_src, | ||
| 132 | struct page *copy_dest, | ||
| 133 | size_t copy_len) | ||
| 134 | { | ||
| 135 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx; | ||
| 136 | |||
| 137 | tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, | ||
| 138 | ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST, NULL, NULL, NULL); | ||
| 139 | tx = async_memcpy(copy_dest, copy_src, 0, 0, copy_len, | ||
| 140 | ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK, tx, NULL, NULL); | ||
| 141 | tx = async_xor(xor_dest, xor_srcs, 0, xor_src_cnt, xor_len, | ||
| 142 | ASYNC_TX_XOR_DROP_DST | ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK | ASYNC_TX_ACK, | ||
| 143 | tx, complete_xor_copy_xor, NULL); | ||
| 144 | |||
| 145 | async_tx_issue_pending_all(); | ||
| 146 | } | ||
| 147 | |||
| 148 | See include/linux/async_tx.h for more information on the flags. See the | ||
| 149 | ops_run_* and ops_complete_* routines in drivers/md/raid5.c for more | ||
| 150 | implementation examples. | ||
| 151 | |||
| 152 | 4 DRIVER DEVELOPMENT NOTES | ||
| 153 | 4.1 Conformance points: | ||
| 154 | There are a few conformance points required in dmaengine drivers to | ||
| 155 | accommodate assumptions made by applications using the async_tx API: | ||
| 156 | 1/ Completion callbacks are expected to happen in tasklet context | ||
| 157 | 2/ dma_async_tx_descriptor fields are never manipulated in IRQ context | ||
| 158 | 3/ Use async_tx_run_dependencies() in the descriptor clean up path to | ||
| 159 | handle submission of dependent operations | ||
| 160 | |||
| 161 | 4.2 "My application needs finer control of hardware channels" | ||
| 162 | This requirement seems to arise from cases where a DMA engine driver is | ||
| 163 | trying to support device-to-memory DMA. The dmaengine and async_tx | ||
| 164 | implementations were designed for offloading memory-to-memory | ||
| 165 | operations; however, there are some capabilities of the dmaengine layer | ||
| 166 | that can be used for platform-specific channel management. | ||
| 167 | Platform-specific constraints can be handled by registering the | ||
| 168 | application as a 'dma_client' and implementing a 'dma_event_callback' to | ||
| 169 | apply a filter to the available channels in the system. Before showing | ||
| 170 | how to implement a custom dma_event callback some background of | ||
| 171 | dmaengine's client support is required. | ||
| 172 | |||
| 173 | The following routines in dmaengine support multiple clients requesting | ||
| 174 | use of a channel: | ||
| 175 | - dma_async_client_register(struct dma_client *client) | ||
| 176 | - dma_async_client_chan_request(struct dma_client *client) | ||
| 177 | |||
| 178 | dma_async_client_register takes a pointer to an initialized dma_client | ||
| 179 | structure. It expects that the 'event_callback' and 'cap_mask' fields | ||
| 180 | are already initialized. | ||
| 181 | |||
| 182 | dma_async_client_chan_request triggers dmaengine to notify the client of | ||
| 183 | all channels that satisfy the capability mask. It is up to the client's | ||
| 184 | event_callback routine to track how many channels the client needs and | ||
| 185 | how many it is currently using. The dma_event_callback routine returns a | ||
| 186 | dma_state_client code to let dmaengine know the status of the | ||
| 187 | allocation. | ||
| 188 | |||
| 189 | Below is the example of how to extend this functionality for | ||
| 190 | platform-specific filtering of the available channels beyond the | ||
| 191 | standard capability mask: | ||
| 192 | |||
| 193 | static enum dma_state_client | ||
| 194 | my_dma_client_callback(struct dma_client *client, | ||
| 195 | struct dma_chan *chan, enum dma_state state) | ||
| 196 | { | ||
| 197 | struct dma_device *dma_dev; | ||
| 198 | struct my_platform_specific_dma *plat_dma_dev; | ||
| 199 | |||
| 200 | dma_dev = chan->device; | ||
| 201 | plat_dma_dev = container_of(dma_dev, | ||
| 202 | struct my_platform_specific_dma, | ||
| 203 | dma_dev); | ||
| 204 | |||
| 205 | if (!plat_dma_dev->platform_specific_capability) | ||
| 206 | return DMA_DUP; | ||
| 207 | |||
| 208 | . . . | ||
| 209 | } | ||
| 210 | |||
| 211 | 5 SOURCE | ||
| 212 | include/linux/dmaengine.h: core header file for DMA drivers and clients | ||
| 213 | drivers/dma/dmaengine.c: offload engine channel management routines | ||
| 214 | drivers/dma/: location for offload engine drivers | ||
| 215 | include/linux/async_tx.h: core header file for the async_tx api | ||
| 216 | crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c: async_tx interface to dmaengine and common code | ||
| 217 | crypto/async_tx/async_memcpy.c: copy offload | ||
| 218 | crypto/async_tx/async_memset.c: memory fill offload | ||
| 219 | crypto/async_tx/async_xor.c: xor and xor zero sum offload | ||
diff --git a/crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c b/crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c index 035007145e78..bc18cbb8ea79 100644 --- a/crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c +++ b/crypto/async_tx/async_tx.c | |||
| @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ dma_wait_for_async_tx(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx) | |||
| 80 | { | 80 | { |
| 81 | enum dma_status status; | 81 | enum dma_status status; |
| 82 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *iter; | 82 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *iter; |
| 83 | struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *parent; | ||
| 83 | 84 | ||
| 84 | if (!tx) | 85 | if (!tx) |
| 85 | return DMA_SUCCESS; | 86 | return DMA_SUCCESS; |
| @@ -87,8 +88,15 @@ dma_wait_for_async_tx(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *tx) | |||
| 87 | /* poll through the dependency chain, return when tx is complete */ | 88 | /* poll through the dependency chain, return when tx is complete */ |
| 88 | do { | 89 | do { |
| 89 | iter = tx; | 90 | iter = tx; |
| 90 | while (iter->cookie == -EBUSY) | 91 | |
| 91 | iter = iter->parent; | 92 | /* find the root of the unsubmitted dependency chain */ |
| 93 | while (iter->cookie == -EBUSY) { | ||
| 94 | parent = iter->parent; | ||
| 95 | if (parent && parent->cookie == -EBUSY) | ||
| 96 | iter = iter->parent; | ||
| 97 | else | ||
| 98 | break; | ||
| 99 | } | ||
| 92 | 100 | ||
| 93 | status = dma_sync_wait(iter->chan, iter->cookie); | 101 | status = dma_sync_wait(iter->chan, iter->cookie); |
| 94 | } while (status == DMA_IN_PROGRESS || (iter != tx)); | 102 | } while (status == DMA_IN_PROGRESS || (iter != tx)); |
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 4d63773ee73a..f96dea975fa5 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c | |||
| @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static void ops_complete_biofill(void *stripe_head_ref) | |||
| 514 | struct stripe_head *sh = stripe_head_ref; | 514 | struct stripe_head *sh = stripe_head_ref; |
| 515 | struct bio *return_bi = NULL; | 515 | struct bio *return_bi = NULL; |
| 516 | raid5_conf_t *conf = sh->raid_conf; | 516 | raid5_conf_t *conf = sh->raid_conf; |
| 517 | int i, more_to_read = 0; | 517 | int i; |
| 518 | 518 | ||
| 519 | pr_debug("%s: stripe %llu\n", __FUNCTION__, | 519 | pr_debug("%s: stripe %llu\n", __FUNCTION__, |
| 520 | (unsigned long long)sh->sector); | 520 | (unsigned long long)sh->sector); |
| @@ -522,16 +522,14 @@ static void ops_complete_biofill(void *stripe_head_ref) | |||
| 522 | /* clear completed biofills */ | 522 | /* clear completed biofills */ |
| 523 | for (i = sh->disks; i--; ) { | 523 | for (i = sh->disks; i--; ) { |
| 524 | struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i]; | 524 | struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i]; |
| 525 | /* check if this stripe has new incoming reads */ | ||
| 526 | if (dev->toread) | ||
| 527 | more_to_read++; | ||
| 528 | 525 | ||
| 529 | /* acknowledge completion of a biofill operation */ | 526 | /* acknowledge completion of a biofill operation */ |
| 530 | /* and check if we need to reply to a read request | 527 | /* and check if we need to reply to a read request, |
| 531 | */ | 528 | * new R5_Wantfill requests are held off until |
| 532 | if (test_bit(R5_Wantfill, &dev->flags) && !dev->toread) { | 529 | * !test_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL, &sh->ops.pending) |
| 530 | */ | ||
| 531 | if (test_and_clear_bit(R5_Wantfill, &dev->flags)) { | ||
| 533 | struct bio *rbi, *rbi2; | 532 | struct bio *rbi, *rbi2; |
| 534 | clear_bit(R5_Wantfill, &dev->flags); | ||
| 535 | 533 | ||
| 536 | /* The access to dev->read is outside of the | 534 | /* The access to dev->read is outside of the |
| 537 | * spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock), but is protected | 535 | * spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock), but is protected |
| @@ -558,8 +556,7 @@ static void ops_complete_biofill(void *stripe_head_ref) | |||
| 558 | 556 | ||
| 559 | return_io(return_bi); | 557 | return_io(return_bi); |
| 560 | 558 | ||
| 561 | if (more_to_read) | 559 | set_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state); |
| 562 | set_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state); | ||
| 563 | release_stripe(sh); | 560 | release_stripe(sh); |
| 564 | } | 561 | } |
| 565 | 562 | ||
