Re: [PATCH 0/5] CAAM JR lifecycle

From: Andrey Smirnov
Date: Wed Nov 06 2019 - 10:19:36 EST


On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 11:27 PM Vakul Garg <vakul.garg@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Cc: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx>; Chris Healy
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> > Subject: [PATCH 0/5] CAAM JR lifecycle
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> > Everyone:
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> > This series is a different approach to addressing the issues brought up in
> > [discussion]. This time the proposition is to get away from creating per-JR
> > platfrom device, move all of the underlying code into caam.ko and disable
> > manual binding/unbinding of the CAAM device via sysfs. Note that this series
> > is a rough cut intented to gauge if this approach could be acceptable for
> > upstreaming.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrey Smirnov
> >
> > [discussion] lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904023515.7107-13-
> > andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx
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> > Andrey Smirnov (5):
> > crypto: caam - use static initialization
> > crypto: caam - introduce caam_jr_cbk
> > crypto: caam - convert JR API to use struct caam_drv_private_jr
> > crypto: caam - do not create a platform devices for JRs
> > crypto: caam - disable CAAM's bind/unbind attributes
> >
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> To access caam jobrings from DPDK (user space drivers), we unbind job-ring's platform device from the kernel.
> What would be the alternate way to enable job ring drivers in user space?
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Wouldn't either building your kernel with
CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_FSL_CAAM_JR=n (this series doesn't handle that right
currently due to being a rough cut) or disabling specific/all JRs via
DT accomplish the same goal?

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov