[RFC PATCH 00/10] Add Fujitsu A64FX soc entry/hardware barrier driver

Misono Tomohiro misono.tomohiro at jp.fujitsu.com
Fri Jan 8 05:52:31 EST 2021


(Resend as cover letter title was missing in the first time. Sorry for noise)

Hello,

This series adds Fujitsu A64FX SoC entry in drivers/soc and hardware
barrier driver for it.

[Driver Description]
 A64FX CPU has several functions for HPC workload and hardware barrier
 is one of them. It is a mechanism to realize fast synchronization by
 PEs belonging to the same L3 cache domain by using implementation
 defined hardware registers.
 For more details, see A64FX HPC extension specification in
 https://github.com/fujitsu/A64FX
 
 The driver mainly offers a set of ioctls to manipulate related registers.
 Patch 1-9 implements driver code and patch 10 finally adds kconfig,
 Makefile and MAINTAINER entry for the driver.  

 Also, C library and test program for this driver is available on: 
 https://github.com/fujitsu/hardware_barrier

 The driver is based on v5.11-rc2 and tested on FX700 environment.

[RFC]
 This is the first time we upstream drivers for our chip and I want to
 confirm driver location and patch submission process.

 Based on my observation it seems drivers/soc folder is right place to put
 this driver, so I added Kconfig entry for arm64 platform config, created
 soc/fujitsu folder and updated MAINTAINER entry accordingly (last patch).
 Is it right?

 Also for final submission I think I need to 1) create some public git
 tree to push driver code (github or something), 2) make pull request to
 SOC team (soc at kernel.org). Is it a correct procedure?

 I will appreciate any help/comments.

sidenote: We plan to post other drivers for A64FX HPC extension
(prefetch control and cache control) too anytime soon.

Misono Tomohiro (10):
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add hardware barrier driver init/exit code
  soc: fujtisu: hwb: Add open operation
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add IOC_BB_ALLOC ioctl
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add IOC_BW_ASSIGN ioctl
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add IOC_BW_UNASSIGN ioctl
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add IOC_BB_FREE ioctl
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add IOC_GET_PE_INFO ioctl
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add release operation
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add sysfs entry
  soc: fujitsu: hwb: Add Kconfig/Makefile to build fujitsu_hwb driver

 MAINTAINERS                            |    7 +
 arch/arm64/Kconfig.platforms           |    5 +
 drivers/soc/Kconfig                    |    1 +
 drivers/soc/Makefile                   |    1 +
 drivers/soc/fujitsu/Kconfig            |   24 +
 drivers/soc/fujitsu/Makefile           |    2 +
 drivers/soc/fujitsu/fujitsu_hwb.c      | 1253 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/fujitsu_hpc_ioctl.h |   41 +
 8 files changed, 1334 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/fujitsu/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/fujitsu/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/soc/fujitsu/fujitsu_hwb.c
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/fujitsu_hpc_ioctl.h

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