- 21 1月, 2013 1 次提交
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由 Jon Mason 提交于
Attempts to probe client ntb drivers without ntb hardware present will result in null pointer dereference due to the lack of the ntb bus device being registers. Check to see if this is the case, and fail all calls by the clients registering their drivers. Signed-off-by: NJon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 18 1月, 2013 2 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
These are now gone from the kernel, so remove them from the newly-added drivers before they start to cause build errors for people. Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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由 Jon Mason 提交于
A PCI-Express non-transparent bridge (NTB) is a point-to-point PCIe bus connecting 2 systems, providing electrical isolation between the two subsystems. A non-transparent bridge is functionally similar to a transparent bridge except that both sides of the bridge have their own independent address domains. The host on one side of the bridge will not have the visibility of the complete memory or I/O space on the other side of the bridge. To communicate across the non-transparent bridge, each NTB endpoint has one (or more) apertures exposed to the local system. Writes to these apertures are mirrored to memory on the remote system. Communications can also occur through the use of doorbell registers that initiate interrupts to the alternate domain, and scratch-pad registers accessible from both sides. The NTB device driver is needed to configure these memory windows, doorbell, and scratch-pad registers as well as use them in such a way as they can be turned into a viable communication channel to the remote system. ntb_hw.[ch] determines the usage model (NTB to NTB or NTB to Root Port) and abstracts away the underlying hardware to provide access and a common interface to the doorbell registers, scratch pads, and memory windows. These hardware interfaces are exported so that other, non-mainlined kernel drivers can access these. ntb_transport.[ch] also uses the exported interfaces in ntb_hw.[ch] to setup a communication channel(s) and provide a reliable way of transferring data from one side to the other, which it then exports so that "client" drivers can access them. These client drivers are used to provide a standard kernel interface (i.e., Ethernet device) to NTB, such that Linux can transfer data from one system to the other in a standard way. Signed-off-by: NJon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Reviewed-by: NNicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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