The GXIO I/O RPC subsystem handles exporting I/O hardware resources to
Linux and to applications running under Linux.
For instance, memory which is made available for I/O DMA must be mapped
by an I/O TLB; that means that such memory must be locked down by Linux,
so that it is not swapped or otherwise reused, as long as those I/O
TLB entries are active. Similarly, configuring direct hardware access
introduces new validation requirements. If a user application registers
memory, Linux must ensure that the supplied virtual addresses are valid,
and turn them into client physical addresses. Similarly, when Linux then
supplies those client physical addresses to the Tilera hypervisor, it
must in turn validate those before turning them into the real physical
addresses which are required by the hardware.
To the extent that these sorts of activities were required on previous
TILE architecture processors, they were implemented in a device-specific
fashion. This meant that every I/O device had its own Tilera hypervisor
driver, its own Linux driver, and in some cases its own user-level
library support. There was a large amount of more-or-less functionally
identical code in different places, particularly in the different Linux
drivers. For TILE-Gx, this support has been generalized into a common
framework, known as the I/O RPC framework or just IORPC.
The two "gxio" directories (one for headers, one for sources) start
with just a few files in each with this infrastructure commit, but
after adding support for the on-board I/O shims for networking, PCI,
USB, crypto, compression, I2CS, etc., there end up being about 20 files
in each directory.
More information on the IORPC framework is in the <hv/iorpc.h> header,
included in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
There is no "ARCH=tile" (just like there is no "ARCH=x86") so we need
to pick a default configuration, either tilepro or tilegx, when users
specify ARCH=tile. We'll use tilegx, since that's our current chip.
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
It causes "make clean" to fail, for example. Once we have KVM support
complete, we'll reinstate the subdir reference.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
While not a port to KVM (yet), this change modifies the kernel
to be able to build either at PL1 or at PL2 with a suitable
config switch. Pushing up this change avoids handling branch
merge issues going forward with the KVM work.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Avoid a compile failure if CONFIG_DEBUG_EXTRA_FLAGS is empty ("");
provide an "install" hook as well as a matching archhelp target;
and some minor whitespace cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
With this change, the arch/tile Makefile will only check for a valid
combination of CROSS_COMPILE vs "uname -m" for a few common targets
that are typically the ones we get wrong (vmlinux, all, and modules).
The change handles the case of an empty "make" goal like "make all".
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
This change is the core kernel support for TILEPro and TILE64 chips.
No driver support (except the console driver) is included yet.
This includes the relevant Linux headers in asm/; the low-level
low-level "Tile architecture" headers in arch/, which are
shared with the hypervisor, etc., and are build-system agnostic;
and the relevant hypervisor headers in hv/.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Chris Metcalf