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From:   Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23] Add initial support for MHI endpoint stack
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 03:15:38PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This series adds initial support for the Qualcomm specific Modem Host Interface
> (MHI) bus in endpoint devices like SDX55 modems. The MHI bus in endpoint devices
> communicates with the MHI bus in host machines like x86 over any physical bus
> like PCIe. The MHI host support is already in mainline [1] and been used by PCIe
> based modems and WLAN devices running vendor code (downstream).
> 
> Overview
> ========
> 
> This series aims at adding the MHI support in the endpoint devices with the goal
> of getting data connectivity using the mainline kernel running on the modems.
> Modems here refer to the combination of an APPS processor (Cortex A grade) and
> a baseband processor (DSP). The MHI bus is located in the APPS processor and it
> transfers data packets from the baseband processor to the host machine.
> 
> The MHI Endpoint (MHI EP) stack proposed here is inspired by the downstream
> code written by Qualcomm. But the complete stack is mostly re-written to adapt
> to the "bus" framework and made it modular so that it can work with the upstream
> subsystems like "PCI Endpoint". The code structure of the MHI endpoint stack
> follows the MHI host stack to maintain uniformity.
> 
> With this initial MHI EP stack (along with few other drivers), we can establish
> the network interface between host and endpoint over the MHI software channels
> (IP_SW0) and can do things like IP forwarding, SSH, etc...
> 
> Stack Organization
> ==================
> 
> The MHI EP stack has the concept of controller and device drivers as like the
> MHI host stack. The MHI EP controller driver can be a PCI Endpoint Function
> driver and the MHI device driver can be a MHI EP Networking driver or QRTR
> driver. The MHI EP controller driver is tied to the PCI Endpoint subsystem and
> handles all bus related activities like mapping the host memory, raising IRQ,
> passing link specific events etc... The MHI EP networking driver is tied to the
> Networking stack and handles all networking related activities like
> sending/receiving the SKBs from netdev, statistics collection etc...
> 
> This series only contains the MHI EP code, whereas the PCIe EPF driver and MHI
> EP Networking drivers are not yet submitted and can be found here [2]. Though
> the MHI EP stack doesn't have the build time dependency, it cannot function
> without them.
> 
> Test setup
> ==========
> 
> This series has been tested on Telit FN980 TLB board powered by Qualcomm SDX55
> (a.k.a X55 modem) and Qualcomm SM8450 based dev board.
> 
> For testing the stability and performance, networking tools such as iperf, ssh
> and ping are used.
> 
> Limitations
> ===========
> 
> We are not _yet_ there to get the data packets from the modem as that involves
> the Qualcomm IP Accelerator (IPA) integration with MHI endpoint stack. But we
> are planning to add support for it in the coming days.
> 
> References
> ==========
> 
> MHI bus: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/mhi/mhi.html
> Linaro connect presentation around this topic: https://connect.linaro.org/resources/lvc21f/lvc21f-222/
> 
> Thanks,
> Mani
> 

Please ignore this patch. It is missing the v2 prefix.

Thanks,
Mani

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/bus/mhi
> [2] https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git/log/?h=tracking-qcomlt-sdx55-drivers
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> v2 mostly addresses the issues seen while testing the stack on SM8450 that is a
> SMP platform and also incorporates the review comments from Alex.
> 
> Major changes are:
> 
> * Added a cleanup patch for getting rid of SHIFT macros and used the bitfield
>   operations.
> * Added the endianess patches that were submitted to MHI list and used the
>   endianess conversion in EP patches also.
> * Added support for multiple event rings.
> * Fixed the MSI generation based on the event ring index.
> * Fixed the doorbell list handling by making use of list splice and not locking
>   the entire list manipulation.
> * Added new APIs for wrapping the reading and writing to host memory (Dmitry).
> * Optimized the read_channel and queue_skb function logics.
> * Added Hemant's R-o-b tag.
> 
> Manivannan Sadhasivam (21):
>   bus: mhi: Move host MHI code to "host" directory
>   bus: mhi: Move common MHI definitions out of host directory
>   bus: mhi: Make mhi_state_str[] array static inline and move to
>     common.h
>   bus: mhi: Cleanup the register definitions used in headers
>   bus: mhi: Get rid of SHIFT macros and use bitfield operations
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for registering MHI endpoint controllers
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for registering MHI endpoint client drivers
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for creating and destroying MHI EP devices
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for managing MMIO registers
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for ring management
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for sending events to the host
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for managing MHI state machine
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for processing MHI endpoint interrupts
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for powering up the MHI endpoint stack
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for powering down the MHI endpoint stack
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for handling MHI_RESET
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for handling SYS_ERR condition
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for processing command and TRE rings
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for queueing SKBs over MHI bus
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add support for suspending and resuming channels
>   bus: mhi: ep: Add uevent support for module autoloading
> 
> Paul Davey (2):
>   bus: mhi: Fix pm_state conversion to string
>   bus: mhi: Fix MHI DMA structure endianness
> 
>  drivers/bus/Makefile                      |    2 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/Kconfig                   |   28 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/Makefile                  |    9 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/common.h                  |  319 ++++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/Kconfig                |   10 +
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/Makefile               |    2 +
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/internal.h             |  254 ++++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c                 | 1602 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/mmio.c                 |  274 ++++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/ring.c                 |  267 ++++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/ep/sm.c                   |  174 +++
>  drivers/bus/mhi/host/Kconfig              |   31 +
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/Makefile   |    4 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/boot.c     |   17 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/debugfs.c  |   40 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/init.c     |  124 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/internal.h |  427 +-----
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/main.c     |   46 +-
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{ => host}/pci_generic.c  |    0
>  drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/pm.c       |   36 +-
>  include/linux/mhi_ep.h                    |  293 ++++
>  include/linux/mod_devicetable.h           |    2 +
>  scripts/mod/file2alias.c                  |   10 +
>  23 files changed, 3443 insertions(+), 528 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/common.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/internal.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/mmio.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/ring.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/ep/sm.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/host/Kconfig
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/Makefile (54%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/boot.c (96%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/debugfs.c (90%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/init.c (93%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/internal.h (50%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/main.c (98%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{ => host}/pci_generic.c (100%)
>  rename drivers/bus/mhi/{core => host}/pm.c (97%)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/mhi_ep.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>