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fwctl is a new subsystem intended to bring some common rules and order to
the growing pattern of exposing a secure FW interface directly to
userspace. Unlike existing places like RDMA/DRM/VFIO/uacce that are
exposing a device for datapath operations fwctl is focused on debugging,
configuration and provisioning of the device. It will not have the
necessary features like interrupt delivery to support a datapath.
This concept is similar to the long standing practice in the "HW" RAID
space of having a device specific misc device to manage the RAID
controller FW. fwctl generalizes this notion of a companion debug and
management interface that goes along with a dataplane implemented in an
appropriate subsystem.
There have been three LWN articles written discussing various aspects of
this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/955001/
https://lwn.net/Articles/969383/
https://lwn.net/Articles/990802/
This pull requests includes three drivers to launch the subsystem:
- CXL provides a vendor scheme for executing commands and a way to learn
the 'command effects' (ie the security properties) of such
commands. The fwctl driver allows access to these mechanism within the
fwctl security model
- mlx5 is family of networking products, the driver supports all current
Mellanox HW still receiving FW feature updates. This includes RDMA
multiprotocol NICs like ConnectX and the Bluefield family of Smart
NICs.
- AMD/Pensando Distributed Services card is a multi protocol Smart NIC
with a multi PCI function design. fwctl works on the management PCI
function following a 'command effects' model similar to CXL.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull fwctl subsystem from Jason Gunthorpe:
"fwctl is a new subsystem intended to bring some common rules and order
to the growing pattern of exposing a secure FW interface directly to
userspace.
Unlike existing places like RDMA/DRM/VFIO/uacce that are exposing a
device for datapath operations fwctl is focused on debugging,
configuration and provisioning of the device. It will not have the
necessary features like interrupt delivery to support a datapath.
This concept is similar to the long standing practice in the "HW" RAID
space of having a device specific misc device to manage the RAID
controller FW. fwctl generalizes this notion of a companion debug and
management interface that goes along with a dataplane implemented in
an appropriate subsystem.
There have been three LWN articles written discussing various aspects
of this:
https://lwn.net/Articles/955001/
https://lwn.net/Articles/969383/
https://lwn.net/Articles/990802/
This includes three drivers to launch the subsystem:
- CXL provides a vendor scheme for executing commands and a way to
learn the 'command effects' (ie the security properties) of such
commands. The fwctl driver allows access to these mechanism within
the fwctl security model
- mlx5 is family of networking products, the driver supports all
current Mellanox HW still receiving FW feature updates. This
includes RDMA multiprotocol NICs like ConnectX and the Bluefield
family of Smart NICs.
- AMD/Pensando Distributed Services card is a multi protocol Smart
NIC with a multi PCI function design. fwctl works on the management
PCI function following a 'command effects' model similar to CXL"
* tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma: (30 commits)
pds_fwctl: add Documentation entries
pds_fwctl: add rpc and query support
pds_fwctl: initial driver framework
pds_core: add new fwctl auxiliary_device
pds_core: specify auxiliary_device to be created
pds_core: make pdsc_auxbus_dev_del() void
cxl: Fixup kdoc issues for include/cxl/features.h
fwctl/cxl: Add documentation to FWCTL CXL
cxl/test: Add Set Feature support to cxl_test
cxl/test: Add Get Feature support to cxl_test
cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for set feature
cxl: Add support to handle user feature commands for get feature
cxl: Add support for fwctl RPC command to enable CXL feature commands
cxl: Move cxl feature command structs to user header
cxl: Add FWCTL support to CXL
mlx5: Create an auxiliary device for fwctl_mlx5
fwctl/mlx5: Support for communicating with mlx5 fw
fwctl: Add documentation
fwctl: FWCTL_RPC to execute a Remote Procedure Call to device firmware
taint: Add TAINT_FWCTL
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