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authorEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh-desktop.(none)>2008-03-05 07:08:09 -0600
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@opteron.9grid.us>2008-05-14 19:23:25 -0500
commitee443996a35c1e04f210cafd43d5a98d41e46085 (patch)
tree58ee72b69a02d9dbb3a98e402a4561baba0eb9a8 /net/9p/trans_virtio.c
parentb32a09db4fb9a87246ba4e7726a979ac4709ad97 (diff)
downloadlinux-ee443996a35c1e04f210cafd43d5a98d41e46085.tar.bz2
9p: Documentation updates
The kernel-doc comments of much of the 9p system have been in disarray since reorganization. This patch fixes those problems, adds additional documentation and a template book which collects the 9p information. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/9p/trans_virtio.c')
-rw-r--r--net/9p/trans_virtio.c155
1 files changed, 145 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
index de7a9f532edc..0bab1f23590e 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
+++ b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
@@ -55,23 +55,69 @@ static int chan_index;
#define P9_INIT_MAXTAG 16
-#define REQ_STATUS_IDLE 0
-#define REQ_STATUS_SENT 1
-#define REQ_STATUS_RCVD 2
-#define REQ_STATUS_FLSH 3
+
+/**
+ * enum p9_req_status_t - virtio request status
+ * @REQ_STATUS_IDLE: request slot unused
+ * @REQ_STATUS_SENT: request sent to server
+ * @REQ_STATUS_RCVD: response received from server
+ * @REQ_STATUS_FLSH: request has been flushed
+ *
+ * The @REQ_STATUS_IDLE state is used to mark a request slot as unused
+ * but use is actually tracked by the idpool structure which handles tag
+ * id allocation.
+ *
+ */
+
+enum p9_req_status_t {
+ REQ_STATUS_IDLE,
+ REQ_STATUS_SENT,
+ REQ_STATUS_RCVD,
+ REQ_STATUS_FLSH,
+};
+
+/**
+ * struct p9_req_t - virtio request slots
+ * @status: status of this request slot
+ * @wq: wait_queue for the client to block on for this request
+ *
+ * The virtio transport uses an array to track outstanding requests
+ * instead of a list. While this may incurr overhead during initial
+ * allocation or expansion, it makes request lookup much easier as the
+ * tag id is a index into an array. (We use tag+1 so that we can accomodate
+ * the -1 tag for the T_VERSION request).
+ * This also has the nice effect of only having to allocate wait_queues
+ * once, instead of constantly allocating and freeing them. Its possible
+ * other resources could benefit from this scheme as well.
+ *
+ */
struct p9_req_t {
int status;
wait_queue_head_t *wq;
};
-/* We keep all per-channel information in a structure.
+/**
+ * struct virtio_chan - per-instance transport information
+ * @initialized: whether the channel is initialized
+ * @inuse: whether the channel is in use
+ * @lock: protects multiple elements within this structure
+ * @vdev: virtio dev associated with this channel
+ * @vq: virtio queue associated with this channel
+ * @tagpool: accounting for tag ids (and request slots)
+ * @reqs: array of request slots
+ * @max_tag: current number of request_slots allocated
+ * @sg: scatter gather list which is used to pack a request (protected?)
+ *
+ * We keep all per-channel information in a structure.
* This structure is allocated within the devices dev->mem space.
* A pointer to the structure will get put in the transport private.
+ *
*/
+
static struct virtio_chan {
- bool initialized; /* channel is initialized */
- bool inuse; /* channel is in use */
+ bool initialized;
+ bool inuse;
spinlock_t lock;
@@ -86,7 +132,19 @@ static struct virtio_chan {
struct scatterlist sg[VIRTQUEUE_NUM];
} channels[MAX_9P_CHAN];
-/* Lookup requests by tag */
+/**
+ * p9_lookup_tag - Lookup requests by tag
+ * @c: virtio channel to lookup tag within
+ * @tag: numeric id for transaction
+ *
+ * this is a simple array lookup, but will grow the
+ * request_slots as necessary to accomodate transaction
+ * ids which did not previously have a slot.
+ *
+ * Bugs: there is currently no upper limit on request slots set
+ * here, but that should be constrained by the id accounting.
+ */
+
static struct p9_req_t *p9_lookup_tag(struct virtio_chan *c, u16 tag)
{
/* This looks up the original request by tag so we know which
@@ -130,6 +188,15 @@ static unsigned int rest_of_page(void *data)
return PAGE_SIZE - ((unsigned long)data % PAGE_SIZE);
}
+/**
+ * p9_virtio_close - reclaim resources of a channel
+ * @trans: transport state
+ *
+ * This reclaims a channel by freeing its resources and
+ * reseting its inuse flag.
+ *
+ */
+
static void p9_virtio_close(struct p9_trans *trans)
{
struct virtio_chan *chan = trans->priv;
@@ -151,6 +218,19 @@ static void p9_virtio_close(struct p9_trans *trans)
kfree(trans);
}
+/**
+ * req_done - callback which signals activity from the server
+ * @vq: virtio queue activity was received on
+ *
+ * This notifies us that the server has triggered some activity
+ * on the virtio channel - most likely a response to request we
+ * sent. Figure out which requests now have responses and wake up
+ * those threads.
+ *
+ * Bugs: could do with some additional sanity checking, but appears to work.
+ *
+ */
+
static void req_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
{
struct virtio_chan *chan = vq->vdev->priv;
@@ -169,6 +249,20 @@ static void req_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->lock, flags);
}
+/**
+ * pack_sg_list - pack a scatter gather list from a linear buffer
+ * @sg: scatter/gather list to pack into
+ * @start: which segment of the sg_list to start at
+ * @limit: maximum segment to pack data to
+ * @data: data to pack into scatter/gather list
+ * @count: amount of data to pack into the scatter/gather list
+ *
+ * sg_lists have multiple segments of various sizes. This will pack
+ * arbitrary data into an existing scatter gather list, segmenting the
+ * data as necessary within constraints.
+ *
+ */
+
static int
pack_sg_list(struct scatterlist *sg, int start, int limit, char *data,
int count)
@@ -189,6 +283,14 @@ pack_sg_list(struct scatterlist *sg, int start, int limit, char *data,
return index-start;
}
+/**
+ * p9_virtio_rpc - issue a request and wait for a response
+ * @t: transport state
+ * @tc: &p9_fcall request to transmit
+ * @rc: &p9_fcall to put reponse into
+ *
+ */
+
static int
p9_virtio_rpc(struct p9_trans *t, struct p9_fcall *tc, struct p9_fcall **rc)
{
@@ -263,6 +365,16 @@ p9_virtio_rpc(struct p9_trans *t, struct p9_fcall *tc, struct p9_fcall **rc)
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * p9_virtio_probe - probe for existence of 9P virtio channels
+ * @vdev: virtio device to probe
+ *
+ * This probes for existing virtio channels. At present only
+ * a single channel is in use, so in the future more work may need
+ * to be done here.
+ *
+ */
+
static int p9_virtio_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
int err;
@@ -307,11 +419,28 @@ fail:
return err;
}
-/* This sets up a transport channel for 9p communication. Right now
+
+/**
+ * p9_virtio_create - allocate a new virtio channel
+ * @devname: string identifying the channel to connect to (unused)
+ * @args: args passed from sys_mount() for per-transport options (unused)
+ * @msize: requested maximum packet size
+ * @extended: 9p2000.u enabled flag
+ *
+ * This sets up a transport channel for 9p communication. Right now
* we only match the first available channel, but eventually we couldlook up
* alternate channels by matching devname versus a virtio_config entry.
* We use a simple reference count mechanism to ensure that only a single
- * mount has a channel open at a time. */
+ * mount has a channel open at a time.
+ *
+ * Bugs: doesn't allow identification of a specific channel
+ * to allocate, channels are allocated sequentially. This was
+ * a pragmatic decision to get things rolling, but ideally some
+ * way of identifying the channel to attach to would be nice
+ * if we are going to support multiple channels.
+ *
+ */
+
static struct p9_trans *
p9_virtio_create(const char *devname, char *args, int msize,
unsigned char extended)
@@ -360,6 +489,12 @@ p9_virtio_create(const char *devname, char *args, int msize,
return trans;
}
+/**
+ * p9_virtio_remove - clean up resources associated with a virtio device
+ * @vdev: virtio device to remove
+ *
+ */
+
static void p9_virtio_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
{
struct virtio_chan *chan = vdev->priv;