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diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1217c2f1595e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst @@ -0,0 +1,292 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. _VAS-API: + +=================================================== +Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS) userspace API +=================================================== + +Introduction +============ + +Power9 processor introduced Virtual Accelerator Switchboard (VAS) which +allows both userspace and kernel communicate to co-processor +(hardware accelerator) referred to as the Nest Accelerator (NX). The NX +unit comprises of one or more hardware engines or co-processor types +such as 842 compression, GZIP compression and encryption. On power9, +userspace applications will have access to only GZIP Compression engine +which supports ZLIB and GZIP compression algorithms in the hardware. + +To communicate with NX, kernel has to establish a channel or window and +then requests can be submitted directly without kernel involvement. +Requests to the GZIP engine must be formatted as a co-processor Request +Block (CRB) and these CRBs must be submitted to the NX using COPY/PASTE +instructions to paste the CRB to hardware address that is associated with +the engine's request queue. + +The GZIP engine provides two priority levels of requests: Normal and +High. Only Normal requests are supported from userspace right now. + +This document explains userspace API that is used to interact with +kernel to setup channel / window which can be used to send compression +requests directly to NX accelerator. + + +Overview +======== + +Application access to the GZIP engine is provided through +/dev/crypto/nx-gzip device node implemented by the VAS/NX device driver. +An application must open the /dev/crypto/nx-gzip device to obtain a file +descriptor (fd). Then should issue VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl with this fd to +establish connection to the engine. It means send window is opened on GZIP +engine for this process. Once a connection is established, the application +should use the mmap() system call to map the hardware address of engine's +request queue into the application's virtual address space. + +The application can then submit one or more requests to the the engine by +using copy/paste instructions and pasting the CRBs to the virtual address +(aka paste_address) returned by mmap(). User space can close the +established connection or send window by closing the file descriptior +(close(fd)) or upon the process exit. + +Note that applications can send several requests with the same window or +can establish multiple windows, but one window for each file descriptor. + +Following sections provide additional details and references about the +individual steps. + +NX-GZIP Device Node +=================== + +There is one /dev/crypto/nx-gzip node in the system and it provides +access to all GZIP engines in the system. The only valid operations on +/dev/crypto/nx-gzip are: + + * open() the device for read and write. + * issue VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl + * mmap() the engine's request queue into application's virtual + address space (i.e. get a paste_address for the co-processor + engine). + * close the device node. + +Other file operations on this device node are undefined. + +Note that the copy and paste operations go directly to the hardware and +do not go through this device. Refer COPY/PASTE document for more +details. + +Although a system may have several instances of the NX co-processor +engines (typically, one per P9 chip) there is just one +/dev/crypto/nx-gzip device node in the system. When the nx-gzip device +node is opened, Kernel opens send window on a suitable instance of NX +accelerator. It finds CPU on which the user process is executing and +determine the NX instance for the corresponding chip on which this CPU +belongs. + +Applications may chose a specific instance of the NX co-processor using +the vas_id field in the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl as detailed below. + +A userspace library libnxz is available here but still in development: + https://github.com/abalib/power-gzip + +Applications that use inflate / deflate calls can link with libnxz +instead of libz and use NX GZIP compression without any modification. + +Open /dev/crypto/nx-gzip +======================== + +The nx-gzip device should be opened for read and write. No special +privileges are needed to open the device. Each window corresponds to one +file descriptor. So if the userspace process needs multiple windows, +several open calls have to be issued. + +See open(2) system call man pages for other details such as return values, +error codes and restrictions. + +VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl +===================== + +Applications should use the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl as follows to establish +a connection with NX co-processor engine: + + :: + struct vas_tx_win_open_attr { + __u32 version; + __s16 vas_id; /* specific instance of vas or -1 + for default */ + __u16 reserved1; + __u64 flags; /* For future use */ + __u64 reserved2[6]; + }; + + version: The version field must be currently set to 1. + vas_id: If '-1' is passed, kernel will make a best-effort attempt + to assign an optimal instance of NX for the process. To + select the specific VAS instance, refer + "Discovery of available VAS engines" section below. + + flags, reserved1 and reserved2[6] fields are for future extension + and must be set to 0. + + The attributes attr for the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl are defined as + follows: + #define VAS_MAGIC 'v' + #define VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN _IOW(VAS_MAGIC, 1, + struct vas_tx_win_open_attr) + + struct vas_tx_win_open_attr attr; + rc = ioctl(fd, VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN, &attr); + + The VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl returns 0 on success. On errors, it + returns -1 and sets the errno variable to indicate the error. + + Error conditions: + EINVAL fd does not refer to a valid VAS device. + EINVAL Invalid vas ID + EINVAL version is not set with proper value + EEXIST Window is already opened for the given fd + ENOMEM Memory is not available to allocate window + ENOSPC System has too many active windows (connections) + opened + EINVAL reserved fields are not set to 0. + + See the ioctl(2) man page for more details, error codes and + restrictions. + +mmap() NX-GZIP device +===================== + +The mmap() system call for a NX-GZIP device fd returns a paste_address +that the application can use to copy/paste its CRB to the hardware engines. + :: + + paste_addr = mmap(addr, size, prot, flags, fd, offset); + + Only restrictions on mmap for a NX-GZIP device fd are: + * size should be PAGE_SIZE + * offset parameter should be 0ULL + + Refer to mmap(2) man page for additional details/restrictions. + In addition to the error conditions listed on the mmap(2) man + page, can also fail with one of the following error codes: + + EINVAL fd is not associated with an open window + (i.e mmap() does not follow a successful call + to the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl). + EINVAL offset field is not 0ULL. + +Discovery of available VAS engines +================================== + +Each available VAS instance in the system will have a device tree node +like /proc/device-tree/vas@* or /proc/device-tree/xscom@*/vas@*. +Determine the chip or VAS instance and use the corresponding ibm,vas-id +property value in this node to select specific VAS instance. + +Copy/Paste operations +===================== + +Applications should use the copy and paste instructions to send CRB to NX. +Refer section 4.4 in PowerISA for Copy/Paste instructions: +https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0 + +CRB Specification and use NX +============================ + +Applications should format requests to the co-processor using the +co-processor Request Block (CRBs). Refer NX-GZIP user's manual for the format +of CRB and use NX from userspace such as sending requests and checking +request status. + +NX Fault handling +================= + +Applications send requests to NX and wait for the status by polling on +co-processor Status Block (CSB) flags. NX updates status in CSB after each +request is processed. Refer NX-GZIP user's manual for the format of CSB and +status flags. + +In case if NX encounters translation error (called NX page fault) on CSB +address or any request buffer, raises an interrupt on the CPU to handle the +fault. Page fault can happen if an application passes invalid addresses or +request buffers are not in memory. The operating system handles the fault by +updating CSB with the following data: + + csb.flags = CSB_V; + csb.cc = CSB_CC_TRANSLATION; + csb.ce = CSB_CE_TERMINATION; + csb.address = fault_address; + +When an application receives translation error, it can touch or access +the page that has a fault address so that this page will be in memory. Then +the application can resend this request to NX. + +If the OS can not update CSB due to invalid CSB address, sends SEGV signal +to the process who opened the send window on which the original request was +issued. This signal returns with the following siginfo struct: + + siginfo.si_signo = SIGSEGV; + siginfo.si_errno = EFAULT; + siginfo.si_code = SEGV_MAPERR; + siginfo.si_addr = CSB adress; + +In the case of multi-thread applications, NX send windows can be shared +across all threads. For example, a child thread can open a send window, +but other threads can send requests to NX using this window. These +requests will be successful even in the case of OS handling faults as long +as CSB address is valid. If the NX request contains an invalid CSB address, +the signal will be sent to the child thread that opened the window. But if +the thread is exited without closing the window and the request is issued +using this window. the signal will be issued to the thread group leader +(tgid). It is up to the application whether to ignore or handle these +signals. + +NX-GZIP User's Manual: +https://github.com/libnxz/power-gzip/blob/master/power_nx_gzip_um.pdf + +Simple example +============== + + :: + int use_nx_gzip() + { + int rc, fd; + void *addr; + struct vas_setup_attr txattr; + + fd = open("/dev/crypto/nx-gzip", O_RDWR); + if (fd < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "open nx-gzip failed\n"); + return -1; + } + memset(&txattr, 0, sizeof(txattr)); + txattr.version = 1; + txattr.vas_id = -1 + rc = ioctl(fd, VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN, + (unsigned long)&txattr); + if (rc < 0) { + fprintf(stderr, "ioctl() n %d, error %d\n", + rc, errno); + return rc; + } + addr = mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, + MAP_SHARED, fd, 0ULL); + if (addr == MAP_FAILED) { + fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed, errno %d\n", + errno); + return -errno; + } + do { + //Format CRB request with compression or + //uncompression + // Refer tests for vas_copy/vas_paste + vas_copy((&crb, 0, 1); + vas_paste(addr, 0, 1); + // Poll on csb.flags with timeout + // csb address is listed in CRB + } while (true) + close(fd) or window can be closed upon process exit + } + + Refer https://github.com/abalib/power-gzip for tests or more + use cases. |