[PATCH v11 0/4] userspace MHI client interface driver

Hemant Kumar
2020-10-30T02:46:54Z

This patch series adds support for UCI driver. UCI driver enables userspace
clients to communicate to external MHI devices like modem and WLAN. UCI driver
probe creates standard character device file nodes for userspace clients to
perform open, read, write, poll and release file operations. These file
operations call MHI core layer APIs to perform data transfer using MHI bus
to communicate with MHI device. Patch is tested using arm64 based platform.

V11:
- Fixed review comments for UCI documentation by expanding TLAs and rewording
some sentences.

V10:
- Replaced mutex_lock with mutex_lock_interruptible in read() and write() file
ops call back.

V9:
- Renamed dl_lock to dl_pending _lock and pending list to dl_pending for
clarity.
- Used read lock to protect cur_buf.
- Change transfer status check logic and only consider 0 and -EOVERFLOW as
only success.
- Added __int to module init function.
- Print channel name instead of minor number upon successful probe.

V8:
- Fixed kernel test robot compilation error by changing %lu to %zu for
size_t.
- Replaced uci with UCI in Kconfig, commit text, and comments in driver
code.
- Fixed minor style related comments.

V7:
- Decoupled uci device and uci channel objects. uci device is
associated with device file node. uci channel is associated
with MHI channels. uci device refers to uci channel to perform
MHI channel operations for device file operations like read()
and write(). uci device increments its reference count for
every open(). uci device calls mhi_uci_dev_start_chan() to start
the MHI channel. uci channel object is tracking number of times
MHI channel is referred. This allows to keep the MHI channel in
start state until last release() is called. After that uci channel
reference count goes to 0 and uci channel clean up is performed
which stops the MHI channel. After the last call to release() if
driver is removed uci reference count becomes 0 and uci object is
cleaned up.
- Use separate uci channel read and write lock to fine grain locking
between reader and writer.
- Use uci device lock to synchronize open, release and driver remove.
- Optimize for downlink only or uplink only UCI device.

V6:
- Moved uci.c to mhi directory.
- Updated Kconfig to add module information.
- Updated Makefile to rename uci object file name as mhi_uci
- Removed kref for open count

V5:
- Removed mhi_uci_drv structure.
- Used idr instead of creating global list of uci devices.
- Used kref instead of local ref counting for uci device and
open count.
- Removed unlikely macro.

V4:
- Fix locking to protect proper struct members.
- Updated documentation describing uci client driver use cases.
- Fixed uci ref counting in mhi_uci_open for error case.
- Addressed style related review comments.

V3: Added documentation for MHI UCI driver.

V2:
- Added mutex lock to prevent multiple readers to access same
- mhi buffer which can result into use after free.

Hemant Kumar (4):
bus: mhi: core: Add helper API to return number of free TREs
bus: mhi: core: Move MHI_MAX_MTU to external header file
docs: Add documentation for userspace client interface
bus: mhi: Add userspace client interface driver

Documentation/mhi/index.rst | 1 +
Documentation/mhi/uci.rst | 84 +++++
drivers/bus/mhi/Kconfig | 13 +
drivers/bus/mhi/Makefile | 4 +
drivers/bus/mhi/core/internal.h | 1 -
drivers/bus/mhi/core/main.c | 12 +
drivers/bus/mhi/uci.c | 662 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/mhi.h | 12 +
8 files changed, 788 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/mhi/uci.rst
create mode 100644 drivers/bus/mhi/uci.c