[RFC PATCH: v3 1/2] add mi device in qemu

[Padmakar Kalghatgi]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 08:01:03AM +0200, Klaus Jensen wrote:
>On Aug  3 12:54, Padmakar Kalghatgi wrote:
>> From: padmakar <p.kalghatgi at samsung.com>
>>
>> This patch contains the implementation of certain commands
>> of nvme-mi specification.The MI commands are useful to
>> manage/configure/monitor the device.Eventhough the MI commands
>> can be sent via the inband NVMe-MI send/recieve commands, the idea
>> here is to emulate the sideband interface for MI.
>>
>> The changes here includes the interface for i2c/smbus
>> for nvme-mi protocol. We have used i2c address of 0x15
>> using which the guest VM can send and recieve the nvme-mi
>> commands. Since the nvme-mi device uses the I2C_SLAVE as
>> parent, we have used the send and recieve callbacks by
>> which the nvme-mi device will get the required notification.
>> With the callback approach, we have eliminated the use of
>> threads.
>>
>> One needs to specify the following command in the launch to
>> specify the nvme-mi device, link to nvme and assign the i2c address.
>> <-device nvme-mi,nvme=nvme0,address=0x15>
>>
>> This module makes use of the NvmeCtrl structure of the nvme module,
>> to fetch relevant information of the nvme device which are used in
>> some of the mi commands. Eventhough certain commands might require
>> modification to the nvme module, currently we have currently refrained
>> from making changes to the nvme module.
>>
>> cmd-name                              cmd-type
>> *************************************************
>> read nvme-mi ds                        nvme-mi
>> configuration set                      nvme-mi
>> configuration get                      nvme-mi
>> vpd read                               nvme-mi
>> vpd write                              nvme-mi
>> controller Health Staus Poll           nvme-mi
>> nvme subsystem health status poll      nvme-mi
>> identify                               nvme-admin
>> get log page                           nvme-admin
>> get features                           nvme-admin
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Padmakar Kalghatgi <p.kalghatgi at samsung.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Klaus Birkelund Jensen <k.jensen at samsung.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jaegyu Choi <jg123.choi at samsung.com>
>>
>
>My Reviewed-by here was added by mistake. I've not given it my formal
>R-b, but I'll provide a proper review on-list ASAP.
>
>But just glossing over it, I like this approach a lot better than v1
>(vsock).

Apologies for the mistake. Looking forward for the feedback on the i2c
implementation.