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vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace
authorXie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:36:33 +0000 (18:36 +0800)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:20:58 +0000 (07:20 -0400)
commit365194a98d97f3a2d25a566f9a2ccb99a463cfa6
tree549e205443878613acbc8a4f989a24c61fa540d9
parent5d08386a2ab13e3f75cc9bb890c2322e31f5c439
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
d632c61fe30a ("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>
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
drivers/vdpa/Kconfig
drivers/vdpa/Makefile
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/vdpa/vdpa_user/vduse_dev.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/uapi/linux/vduse.h [new file with mode: 0644]