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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -0700 |
commit | 8c79f4cd441b27df6cadd11b70a50e06b3b3a2bf (patch) | |
tree | 0d7fca2a5fb43fa75b51c4cdaaee493e44d56d62 /Documentation/ntb.txt | |
parent | 2646719a48c21ba0cae82a3f57382a9573fd8400 (diff) | |
parent | d9defe448f4c7b88ca2ae636a321ef8970fa718d (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:
- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
- Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
- Various build-script fixes
- A new document on memory models
- RST conversion of the live-patching docs
- The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
doc:it_IT: translation alignment
doc: fix typo in PGP guide
dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
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diff --git a/Documentation/ntb.txt b/Documentation/ntb.txt index a043854d28df..074a423c853c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ntb.txt +++ b/Documentation/ntb.txt @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ mainly used to perform the proper memory window initialization. Typically there are two types of memory window interfaces supported by the NTB API: inbound translation configured on the local ntb port and outbound translation configured by the peer, on the peer ntb port. The first type is -depicted on the next figure +depicted on the next figure:: + + Inbound translation: -Inbound translation: Memory: Local NTB Port: Peer NTB Port: Peer MMIO: ____________ | dma-mapped |-ntb_mw_set_trans(addr) | @@ -58,9 +59,10 @@ maps corresponding outbound memory window so to have access to the shared memory region. The second type of interface, that implies the shared windows being -initialized by a peer device, is depicted on the figure: +initialized by a peer device, is depicted on the figure:: + + Outbound translation: -Outbound translation: Memory: Local NTB Port: Peer NTB Port: Peer MMIO: ____________ ______________ | dma-mapped | | | MW base addr |<== memory-mapped IO @@ -75,11 +77,13 @@ outbound memory window so to have access to the shared memory region. As one can see the described scenarios can be combined in one portable algorithm. + Local device: 1) Allocate memory for a shared window 2) Initialize memory window by translated address of the allocated region (it may fail if local memory window initialization is unsupported) 3) Send the translated address and memory window index to a peer device + Peer device: 1) Initialize memory window with retrieved address of the allocated by another device memory region (it may fail if peer memory window @@ -88,6 +92,7 @@ algorithm. In accordance with this scenario, the NTB Memory Window API can be used as follows: + Local device: 1) ntb_mw_count(pidx) - retrieve number of memory ranges, which can be allocated for memory windows between local device and peer device @@ -103,6 +108,7 @@ follows: 5) Send translated base address (usually together with memory window number) to the peer device using, for instance, scratchpad or message registers. + Peer device: 1) ntb_peer_mw_set_trans(pidx, midx) - try to set received from other device (related to pidx) translated address for specified memory |