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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-27 16:30:09 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-03-27 16:30:09 -0700 |
commit | 46b407ca4a6149c8d27fcec1881d4f184bec7c77 (patch) | |
tree | a608dadec12b8dd74866721b3de32435f575e809 /Documentation/ABI | |
parent | 1bfecd935849a45b6b47d9f011e1c278ff880512 (diff) | |
parent | 6458acb5a31926dcc1295410221493544d628cf7 (diff) | |
download | linux-46b407ca4a6149c8d27fcec1881d4f184bec7c77.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull "remoteproc/rpmsg: new subsystem" from Arnd Bergmann:
"This new subsystem provides a common way to talk to secondary
processors on an SoC, e.g. a DSP, GPU or service processor, using
virtio as the transport. In the long run, it should replace a few
dozen vendor specific ways to do the same thing, which all never made
it into the upstream kernel. There is a broad agreement that rpmsg is
the way to go here and several vendors have started working on
replacing their own subsystems.
Two branches each add one virtio protocol number. Fortunately the
numbers were agreed upon in advance, so there are only context
changes.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>"
Fixed up trivial protocol number conflict due to the mentioned additions
next to each other.
* tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (32 commits)
remoteproc: cleanup resource table parsing paths
remoteproc: remove the hardcoded vring alignment
remoteproc/omap: remove the mbox_callback limitation
remoteproc: remove the single rpmsg vdev limitation
remoteproc: safer boot/shutdown order
remoteproc: remoteproc_rpmsg -> remoteproc_virtio
remoteproc: resource table overhaul
rpmsg: fix build warning when dma_addr_t is 64-bit
rpmsg: fix published buffer length in rpmsg_recv_done
rpmsg: validate incoming message length before propagating
rpmsg: fix name service endpoint leak
remoteproc/omap: two Kconfig fixes
remoteproc: make sure we're parsing a 32bit firmware
remoteproc: s/big switch/lookup table/
remoteproc: bail out if firmware has different endianess
remoteproc: don't use virtio's weak barriers
rpmsg: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf
rpmsg: depend on EXPERIMENTAL
remoteproc: depend on EXPERIMENTAL
rpmsg: add Kconfig menu
...
Conflicts:
include/linux/virtio_ids.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rpmsg | 75 |
1 files changed, 75 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rpmsg b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rpmsg new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..189e419a5a2d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-rpmsg @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +What: /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../name +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.3 +Contact: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> +Description: + Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote + processor. Channels are identified with a (textual) name, + which is maximum 32 bytes long (defined as RPMSG_NAME_SIZE in + rpmsg.h). + + This sysfs entry contains the name of this channel. + +What: /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../src +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.3 +Contact: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> +Description: + Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote + processor. Channels have a local ("source") rpmsg address, + and remote ("destination") rpmsg address. When an entity + starts listening on one end of a channel, it assigns it with + a unique rpmsg address (a 32 bits integer). This way when + inbound messages arrive to this address, the rpmsg core + dispatches them to the listening entity (a kernel driver). + + This sysfs entry contains the src (local) rpmsg address + of this channel. If it contains 0xffffffff, then an address + wasn't assigned (can happen if no driver exists for this + channel). + +What: /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../dst +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.3 +Contact: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> +Description: + Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote + processor. Channels have a local ("source") rpmsg address, + and remote ("destination") rpmsg address. When an entity + starts listening on one end of a channel, it assigns it with + a unique rpmsg address (a 32 bits integer). This way when + inbound messages arrive to this address, the rpmsg core + dispatches them to the listening entity. + + This sysfs entry contains the dst (remote) rpmsg address + of this channel. If it contains 0xffffffff, then an address + wasn't assigned (can happen if the kernel driver that + is attached to this channel is exposing a service to the + remote processor. This make it a local rpmsg server, + and it is listening for inbound messages that may be sent + from any remote rpmsg client; it is not bound to a single + remote entity). + +What: /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../announce +Date: June 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.3 +Contact: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com> +Description: + Every rpmsg device is a communication channel with a remote + processor. Channels are identified by a textual name (see + /sys/bus/rpmsg/devices/.../name above) and have a local + ("source") rpmsg address, and remote ("destination") rpmsg + address. + + A channel is first created when an entity, whether local + or remote, starts listening on it for messages (and is thus + called an rpmsg server). + + When that happens, a "name service" announcement is sent + to the other processor, in order to let it know about the + creation of the channel (this way remote clients know they + can start sending messages). + + This sysfs entry tells us whether the channel is a local + server channel that is announced (values are either + true or false). |