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Date:   Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:18:43 +0100
From:   Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
To:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Cc:     Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
        Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Tom Joseph <tjoseph@cadence.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntb@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/18] Implement NTB Controller using multiple PCI EP
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 01:45:45PM +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05/10/20 11:27 am, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> > Hi Jon Mason, Allen Hubbe, Dave Jiang,
> > 
> > On 30/09/20 9:05 pm, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> >> This series is about implementing SW defined Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB)
> >> using multiple endpoint (EP) instances. This series has been tested using
> >> 2 endpoint instances in J7 connected to J7 board on one end and DRA7 board
> >> on the other end. However there is nothing platform specific for the NTB
> >> functionality.
> > 
> > This series has two patches that adds to drivers/ntb/ directory.
> > [PATCH v7 15/18] NTB: Add support for EPF PCI-Express Non-Transparent
> > Bridge and [PATCH v7 16/18] NTB: tool: Enable the NTB/PCIe link on the
> > local or remote side of bridge.
> > 
> > If you can review and Ack the above patches, Lorenzo can queue it along
> > with the rest of the series.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> 
> Gentle ping on this series.

I am not queueing any more patches for this merge window - we postpone
this series to v5.11 and in the interim it would be good to define some
possible users.

Thanks,
Lorenzo

> Thanks
> Kishon
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Kishon
> > 
> >>
> >> This was presented in Linux Plumbers Conference. Link to presentation
> >> and video can be found @ [1]
> >>
> >> RFC patch series can be found @ [2]
> >> v1 patch series can be found @ [3]
> >> v2 patch series can be found @ [4]
> >> v3 patch series can be found @ [5]
> >> v4 patch series can be found @ [6]
> >> v5 patch series can be found @ [7]
> >> v6 patch series can be found @ [8]
> >>
> >> Changes from v6:
> >> 1) Fixed issues when multiple NTB devices are creating using multiple
> >>    functions
> >> 2) Fixed issue with writing scratchpad register
> >> 3) Created a video demo @ [9]
> >>
> >> Changes from v5:
> >> 1) Fixed a formatting issue in Kconfig pointed out by Randy
> >> 2) Checked for Error or Null in pci_epc_add_epf()
> >>
> >> Changes from v4:
> >> 1) Fixed error condition checks in pci_epc_add_epf()
> >>
> >> Changes from v3:
> >> 1) Fixed Documentation edits suggested by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> >>
> >> Changes from v2:
> >> 1) Add support for the user to create sub-directory of 'EPF Device'
> >>    directory (for endpoint function specific configuration using
> >>    configfs).
> >> 2) Add documentation for NTB specific attributes in configfs
> >> 3) Check for PCI_CLASS_MEMORY_RAM (PCIe class) before binding ntb_hw_epf
> >>    driver
> >> 4) Other documentation fixes
> >>
> >> Changes from v1:
> >> 1) As per Rob's comment, removed support for creating NTB function
> >>    device from DT
> >> 2) Add support to create NTB EPF device using configfs (added support in
> >>    configfs to associate primary and secondary EPC with EPF.
> >>
> >> Changes from RFC:
> >> 1) Converted the DT binding patches to YAML schema and merged the
> >>    DT binding patches together
> >> 2) NTB documentation is converted to .rst
> >> 3) One HOST can now interrupt the other HOST using MSI-X interrupts
> >> 4) Added support for teardown of memory window and doorbell
> >>    configuration
> >> 5) Add support to provide support 64-bit memory window size from
> >>    DT
> >>
> >> [1] -> https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/395/
> >> [2] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20190926112933.8922-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [3] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200514145927.17555-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [4] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611130525.22746-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [5] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904075052.8911-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [6] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200915042110.3015-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [7] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200918064227.1463-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [8] -> http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200924092519.17082-1-kishon@ti.com
> >> [9] -> https://youtu.be/dLKKxrg5-rY
> >>
> >> Kishon Vijay Abraham I (18):
> >>   Documentation: PCI: Add specification for the *PCI NTB* function
> >>     device
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Make *_get_first_free_bar() take into account 64 bit
> >>     BAR
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add helper API to get the 'next' unreserved BAR
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Make *_free_bar() to return error codes on failure
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Remove unused pci_epf_match_device()
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add support to associate secondary EPC with EPF
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add support in configfs to associate two EPCs with EPF
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add pci_epc_ops to map MSI irq
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add pci_epf_ops for epf drivers to expose function
> >>     specific attrs
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Allow user to create sub-directory of 'EPF Device'
> >>     directory
> >>   PCI: cadence: Implement ->msi_map_irq() ops
> >>   PCI: cadence: Configure LM_EP_FUNC_CFG based on epc->function_num_map
> >>   PCI: endpoint: Add EP function driver to provide NTB functionality
> >>   PCI: Add TI J721E device to pci ids
> >>   NTB: Add support for EPF PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge
> >>   NTB: tool: Enable the NTB/PCIe link on the local or remote side of
> >>     bridge
> >>   Documentation: PCI: Add configfs binding documentation for pci-ntb
> >>     endpoint function
> >>   Documentation: PCI: Add userguide for PCI endpoint NTB function
> >>
> >>  .../PCI/endpoint/function/binding/pci-ntb.rst |   38 +
> >>  Documentation/PCI/endpoint/index.rst          |    3 +
> >>  .../PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.rst         |   10 +
> >>  .../PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-function.rst         |  351 +++
> >>  Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-howto.rst  |  160 ++
> >>  drivers/misc/pci_endpoint_test.c              |    1 -
> >>  drivers/ntb/hw/Kconfig                        |    1 +
> >>  drivers/ntb/hw/Makefile                       |    1 +
> >>  drivers/ntb/hw/epf/Kconfig                    |    6 +
> >>  drivers/ntb/hw/epf/Makefile                   |    1 +
> >>  drivers/ntb/hw/epf/ntb_hw_epf.c               |  755 ++++++
> >>  drivers/ntb/test/ntb_tool.c                   |    1 +
> >>  .../pci/controller/cadence/pcie-cadence-ep.c  |   60 +-
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/Kconfig        |   12 +
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/Makefile       |    1 +
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-ntb.c  | 2114 +++++++++++++++++
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c |   13 +-
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-ep-cfs.c             |  176 +-
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c           |  130 +-
> >>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c           |  105 +-
> >>  include/linux/pci-epc.h                       |   39 +-
> >>  include/linux/pci-epf.h                       |   28 +-
> >>  include/linux/pci_ids.h                       |    1 +
> >>  23 files changed, 3934 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/endpoint/function/binding/pci-ntb.rst
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-function.rst
> >>  create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-howto.rst
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/hw/epf/Kconfig
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/hw/epf/Makefile
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/hw/epf/ntb_hw_epf.c
> >>  create mode 100644 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-ntb.c
> >>