Re: [PATCH v3 23/25] bus: mhi: ep: Add support for queueing SKBs to the host

Alex Elder
2022-02-15T22:40:48Z

On 2/12/22 12:21 PM, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> Add support for queueing SKBs to the host over the transfer ring of the
> relevant channel. The mhi_ep_queue_skb() API will be used by the client
> networking drivers to queue the SKBs to the host over MHI bus.
>
> The host will add ring elements to the transfer ring periodically for
> the device and the device will write SKBs to the ring elements. If a
> single SKB doesn't fit in a ring element (TRE), it will be placed in
> multiple ring elements and the overflow event will be sent for all ring
> elements except the last one. For the last ring element, the EOT event
> will be sent indicating the packet boundary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>

I'm a little confused by this, so maybe you can provide
a better explanation somehow.

-Alex

> ---
> drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/mhi_ep.h | 13 +++++
> 2 files changed, 115 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c b/drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c
> index baf383a4857b..e4186b012257 100644
> --- a/drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c
> +++ b/drivers/bus/mhi/ep/main.c
> @@ -488,6 +488,108 @@ int mhi_ep_process_tre_ring(struct mhi_ep_ring *ring, struct mhi_ep_ring_element
> return 0;
> }
>
> +int mhi_ep_queue_skb(struct mhi_ep_device *mhi_dev, enum dma_data_direction dir,
> + struct sk_buff *skb, size_t len, enum mhi_flags mflags)

Why are both skb and len supplied? Will an skb be supplied
without wanting to send all of it? Must len be less than
skb->len? I'm a little confused about the interface.

Also, the data direction is *out*, right? You'll never
be queueing a "receive" SKB?

> +{
> + struct mhi_ep_chan *mhi_chan = (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ? mhi_dev->dl_chan :
> + mhi_dev->ul_chan;
> + struct mhi_ep_cntrl *mhi_cntrl = mhi_dev->mhi_cntrl;
> + struct device *dev = &mhi_chan->mhi_dev->dev;
> + struct mhi_ep_ring_element *el;
> + struct mhi_ep_ring *ring;
> + size_t bytes_to_write;
> + enum mhi_ev_ccs code;
> + void *read_from_loc;
> + u32 buf_remaining;
> + u64 write_to_loc;
> + u32 tre_len;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + if (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE)
> + return -EINVAL;

Can't you just preclude this from happening, or
know it won't happen by inspection?

> +
> + buf_remaining = len;
> + ring = &mhi_cntrl->mhi_chan[mhi_chan->chan].ring;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&mhi_chan->lock);
> +
> + do {
> + /* Don't process the transfer ring if the channel is not in RUNNING state */
> + if (mhi_chan->state != MHI_CH_STATE_RUNNING) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Channel not available\n");
> + ret = -ENODEV;
> + goto err_exit;
> + }
> +

It would be nice if the caller could know whether there
was enough room *before* you start transferring things.
It's probably a lot of work to get to that point though.

> + if (mhi_ep_queue_is_empty(mhi_dev, dir)) {
> + dev_err(dev, "TRE not available!\n");
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto err_exit;
> + }
> +
> + el = &ring->ring_cache[ring->rd_offset];
> + tre_len = MHI_EP_TRE_GET_LEN(el);
> + if (skb->len > tre_len) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Buffer size (%d) is too large for TRE (%d)!\n",
> + skb->len, tre_len);

This means the receive buffer must be big enough to hold
any incoming SKB. This is *without* checking for the
CHAIN flag in the TRE, so what you describe in the
patch description seems not to be true. I.e., multiple
TREs in a TRD will *not* be consumed if the SKB data
requires more than what's left in the current TRE.

But you have some other code below, so it's likely I'm
just misunderstanding this.

> + ret = -ENOMEM;
> + goto err_exit;
> + }
> +
> + bytes_to_write = min(buf_remaining, tre_len);
> + read_from_loc = skb->data;
> + write_to_loc = MHI_EP_TRE_GET_PTR(el);
> +
> + ret = mhi_cntrl->write_to_host(mhi_cntrl, read_from_loc, write_to_loc,
> + bytes_to_write);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + goto err_exit;
> +
> + buf_remaining -= bytes_to_write;
> + /*
> + * For all TREs queued by the host for DL channel, only the EOT flag will be set.
> + * If the packet doesn't fit into a single TRE, send the OVERFLOW event to
> + * the host so that the host can adjust the packet boundary to next TREs. Else send
> + * the EOT event to the host indicating the packet boundary.
> + */
> + if (buf_remaining)
> + code = MHI_EV_CC_OVERFLOW;
> + else
> + code = MHI_EV_CC_EOT;
> +
> + ret = mhi_ep_send_completion_event(mhi_cntrl, ring, bytes_to_write, code);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Error sending completion event\n");
> + goto err_exit;
> + }
> +
> + mhi_ep_ring_inc_index(ring);
> + } while (buf_remaining);
> +
> + /*
> + * During high network traffic, sometimes the DL doorbell interrupt from the host is missed
> + * by the endpoint. So manually check for the write pointer update here so that we don't run
> + * out of buffer due to missing interrupts.
> + */
> + if (ring->rd_offset + 1 == ring->wr_offset) {
> + ret = mhi_ep_update_wr_offset(ring);
> + if (ret) {
> + dev_err(dev, "Error updating write pointer\n");
> + goto err_exit;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + mutex_unlock(&mhi_chan->lock);
> +
> + return 0;
> +
> +err_exit:
> + mutex_unlock(&mhi_chan->lock);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mhi_ep_queue_skb);
> +
> static int mhi_ep_cache_host_cfg(struct mhi_ep_cntrl *mhi_cntrl)
> {
> struct device *dev = &mhi_cntrl->mhi_dev->dev;
> diff --git a/include/linux/mhi_ep.h b/include/linux/mhi_ep.h
> index aaf4b6942037..75cfbf0c6fb0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mhi_ep.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mhi_ep.h
> @@ -277,4 +277,17 @@ void mhi_ep_power_down(struct mhi_ep_cntrl *mhi_cntrl);
> */
> bool mhi_ep_queue_is_empty(struct mhi_ep_device *mhi_dev, enum dma_data_direction dir);
>
> +/**
> + * mhi_ep_queue_skb - Send SKBs to host over MHI Endpoint
> + * @mhi_dev: Device associated with the channels
> + * @dir: DMA direction for the channel
> + * @skb: Buffer for holding SKBs
> + * @len: Buffer length
> + * @mflags: MHI Endpoint transfer flags used for the transfer
> + *
> + * Return: 0 if the SKBs has been sent successfully, a negative error code otherwise.
> + */
> +int mhi_ep_queue_skb(struct mhi_ep_device *mhi_dev, enum dma_data_direction dir,
> + struct sk_buff *skb, size_t len, enum mhi_flags mflags);
> +
> #endif