Re: [PATCH v7 00/29] FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) Device Drivers

From: Alan Tull
Date: Mon Jul 09 2018 - 12:35:08 EST


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 7:53 PM, Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is v7 patch-series adding drivers for FPGA DFL devices.

Hi Greg,

Could you please take this v7 patchset for 4.19?

Alan

>
> This patch series provides a common framework to support FPGA Device
> Feature List (DFL) and also feature dev drivers under this DFL framework
> to provide interfaces for userspace applications to configure, enumerate,
> open and access FPGA accelerators on DFL based FPGA device and enables
> system level management functions such as FPGA partial reconfiguration,
> power management and virtualization.
>
> This patch series only adds the basic functions for FPGA accelerators and
> partial reconfiguration. Patches for more functions, e.g. power management
> and virtualization, will be submitted after this series gets reviewed.
>
> Note this patch series is only verified on DFL based Intel(R) FPGA PCIe
> devices (e.g. Intel Server Platform with In-package FPGA and Intel FPGA
> PCIe Acceleration Cards).
>
> Patch 1: add a document for FPGA DFL framework driver overview, including
> Device Feature List (DFL) introduction, the HW architecture, driver
> organization, device enumeration and opens.
>
> Patch 2: add region_id for fpga_image_info data structure, which allows
> driver to pass region id information to fpga-mgr for FPGA reconfiguration
> function. (Used by Patch 17)
>
> Patch 3: add a 'status' sysfs interface to fpga-mgr class, it reflects
> the status of the fpga-mgr including reconfiguration errors. (Used by
> Patch 18)
>
> Patch 4-5: add compat_id support in fpga manager and region, this compat
> id is used for compatibility check before further actions (e.g. partial
> reconfiguration). (Used by Patch 19 and 22)
>
> Patch 6-11: add FPGA device feature list support, it provides common
> enumeration interfaces which creates container device (FPGA base region)
> and all feature devices by walking through all the 'Device Feature Lists'
> provided low level drivers. A global list is added to DFL framework to
> manage port ops from different ports.
>
> Patch 12-13: implement FPGA PCIe device driver. It locates all 'Device
> Feature Lists' in PCIe device memory and invokes common interfaces from
> above device feature list framework to finish the enumeration.
>
> Patch 14-17: implement FPGA Management Engine (FME) driver. It's a
> platform driver matching with the FME platform device created by above
> device feature list framework during enumeration. Sysfs and device file
> ioctls are exposed as user interfaces to allow partial reconfiguration
> to Accelerated Function Units (AFUs) from user space applications.
>
> Patch 18-22: implement FPGA manager/bridge/region platform drivers for
> Intel FPGA Management Engine (FME). These platform drivers match with
> platform devices created by above FME driver, they use the generic
> fpga-mgr/bridge/region class infrastructure to implement FPGA partial
> reconfiguration function.
>
> Patch 23-28: implement FPGA Accelerated Function Unit (AFU) driver.
> It's a platform driver matching with AFU platform device created by above
> device feature list framework during enumeration. It provides user
> interfaces to expose the AFU MMIO region, map/unmap dma buffer and
> control the port which AFU connects to.
>
> Patch 29: add a entry in MAINTAINERS for this FPGA DFL drivers patchset.
>
> Changes from v6:
> - Improve Kconfig description, fix typos and other comments.
> - Update target kernelversion in sysfs doc.
> - Fix issues reported by kbuild.
> - Simplify pcie driver by using pcim_xxx functions.
>
> Changes from v5:
> - Improve functions/APIs naming per suggestion from Alan Tull.
> - Improve DFL framework code and comments to simplify the work for adding
> a new feature device support.
> - Correct the time in copyright and fix other comments from Alan Tull.
> - Add a entry in MAINTAINERS for this FPGA DFL drivers patchset.
>
> Changes from v4:
> - Update the dfl.txt documentation, remove descriptions for the APIs and
> features which are not implemented in this patch series.
> - Add DFL_ / dfl_ prefix for APIs and data structure, to avoid directly
> using fpga_xxx as definition.
> - Use "static region" and "PR bistream" instead of "blue bitstream" and
> "green bistream" in description to avoid misunderstanding.
> - Fix building issues caused by BIT() on 64bit register definition and
> missing correct header file for readq and writeq.
> - Remove port specific code in DFL framework and introduce port ops
> support to resolve the dependency issue between FME driver module and
> Port driver module. (more details in Patch 8).
> - Add compat id to fpga manager, as in case some hardware implements the
> compat id in fpga manager's register, not register belongs to fpga region
> and it's value is shared by all related fpga regions.
> - Pass mapped ioaddr to fme manager platform device from dfl-fme-pr via
> pdata.
> - Fix other comments from Alan and Moritze, including description
> improvement, coding style issue and etc.
>
> Changes from v3:
> - Fix SPDX license issue.
> - Rename documentation to dfl.txt, add introduction for Device Feature List
> (DFL) and re-organize the content.
> - Rename to FPGA Device Feature List (DFL) drivers from Intel FPGA device
> drivers for better reuse purposes. Unified driver and files to dfl-*.*
> - Remove static feature_info table from common enumeration code and switch
> to use feature id for sub feature driver matching.
> - Remove next_afu register checking for AFU from common enumeration code.
> - Remove interface_id sysfs for dfl-fme-mgr and use per fpga-region
> compat_id instead. (new patch 13, 15, 19).
> - Add more comments for driver data structures and functions.
> - Fix typos, issues in debug message/commit message and other places.
>
> Changes from v2:
> - Split common enumeration code from pcie driver to a separated module
> which for device feature list support.
> - Drop fpga-dev class and switch to use fpga base region as container.
> - Update the intel-fpga.txt documentation for new driver organization.
> - Rename feature device drivers for future code reuse.
> - Rebase code due to fpga APIs changes
> - replace bitfields with marco and shift.
> - fix typos, checkpatch issue and other comments.
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Use GPLv2 license instead of Dual BSD/GPL.
> - Move the code to drivers/fpga folder.
> - Update the intel-fpga.txt documentation for new driver organization.
> - Add documentation for new sysfs interfaces.
> - Switch to use common fpga-region interface for partial reconfiguration
> (PR) function in FME. It creates fpga-region/fpga-mgr/fpga-bridge
> platform devices and leave the implementation to their platform drivers.
> - Add platform drivers for FME fpga-mgr/bridge/region platform devices.
> - Fix kbuild warnings, typos and other comments.
>
> Kang Luwei (3):
> fpga: dfl: add FPGA Management Engine driver basic framework
> fpga: dfl: fme: add header sub feature support
> fpga: dfl: fme: add partial reconfiguration sub feature support
>
> Wu Hao (23):
> docs: fpga: add a document for FPGA Device Feature List (DFL)
> Framework Overview
> fpga: mgr: add region_id to fpga_image_info
> fpga: mgr: add status for fpga-manager
> fpga: mgr: add compat_id support
> fpga: region: add compat_id support
> fpga: add device feature list support
> fpga: dfl: add chardev support for feature devices
> fpga: dfl: add dfl_fpga_cdev_find_port
> fpga: dfl: add dfl_fpga_port_ops support.
> fpga: dfl: add dfl_fpga_check_port_id function.
> fpga: dfl-pci: add enumeration for feature devices
> fpga: dfl: fme: add DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION/CHECK_EXTENSION ioctls
> support
> fpga: dfl: add fpga manager platform driver for FME
> fpga: dfl: fme-mgr: add compat_id support
> fpga: dfl: add fpga bridge platform driver for FME
> fpga: dfl: add fpga region platform driver for FME
> fpga: dfl: fme-region: add support for compat_id
> fpga: dfl: add FPGA Accelerated Function Unit driver basic framework
> fpga: dfl: afu: add port ops support
> fpga: dfl: afu: add header sub feature support
> fpga: dfl: afu: add DFL_FPGA_GET_API_VERSION/CHECK_EXTENSION ioctls
> support
> fpga: dfl: afu: add DFL_FPGA_PORT_DMA_MAP/UNMAP ioctls support
> MAINTAINERS: add entry for FPGA DFL drivers
>
> Xiao Guangrong (2):
> fpga: dfl: add feature device infrastructure
> fpga: dfl: afu: add afu sub feature support
>
> Zhang Yi (1):
> fpga: add FPGA DFL PCIe device driver
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-fpga-manager | 24 +
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-fpga-region | 9 +
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dfl-fme | 23 +
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dfl-port | 16 +
> Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt | 285 ++++++
> Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 +
> MAINTAINERS | 8 +
> drivers/fpga/Kconfig | 68 ++
> drivers/fpga/Makefile | 14 +
> drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-dma-region.c | 463 +++++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-main.c | 636 ++++++++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-region.c | 166 ++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-afu.h | 100 ++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-br.c | 114 +++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c | 279 ++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c | 349 +++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c | 479 +++++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.h | 84 ++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-region.c | 89 ++
> drivers/fpga/dfl-fme.h | 38 +
> drivers/fpga/dfl-pci.c | 243 +++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl.c | 1044 ++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/fpga/dfl.h | 410 ++++++++
> drivers/fpga/fpga-mgr.c | 28 +
> drivers/fpga/fpga-region.c | 22 +
> include/linux/fpga/fpga-mgr.h | 24 +
> include/linux/fpga/fpga-region.h | 2 +
> include/uapi/linux/fpga-dfl.h | 179 ++++
> 28 files changed, 5197 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-fpga-region
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dfl-fme
> create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dfl-port
> create mode 100644 Documentation/fpga/dfl.txt
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-dma-region.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-afu-region.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-afu.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-br.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-main.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-mgr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-pr.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme-region.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-fme.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl-pci.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/fpga/dfl.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/fpga-dfl.h
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