Use sysfs to allow supporting sub-channels. The userspace application
makes request to host to create sub-channels and the UIO kernel
driver populates the sysfs per-channel directory with a binary
attribute file that can be used to read/write ring.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When host rescinds the device, the UIO driver will clear the interrupt
state and notify application. The read (or write) on the interrupt FD
will then fail with -EIO. This is simpler than adding lots extra uevent
stuff inside UIO.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Map in receive and send buffers for networking in UIO device.
These buffers are special and need to be setup by kernel
API's; userspace can not do it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Describe the regions present with uio_hv_generic in documentation for
driver API.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The vmbus sysfs file names changed in
commit f6b2db084b ("vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI")
and the uio documenatation does not match the current names.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mauro Carvalho Chehab