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authorCatherine Sullivan <csully@google.com>2019-07-02 01:57:54 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-07-02 05:36:35 +0300
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gve: Add workqueue and reset support
Add support for the workqueue to handle management interrupts and support for resets. Signed-off-by: Catherine Sullivan <csully@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jon Olson <jonolson@google.com> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Luigi Rizzo <lrizzo@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst11
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst
index df8974fb3270..793693cef6e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/google/gve.rst
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ The driver interacts with the device in the following ways:
- See gve_register.h for more detail
- Admin Queue
- See description below
+ - Reset
+ - At any time the device can be reset
- Interrupts
- See supported interrupts below
- Transmit and Receive Queues
@@ -69,6 +71,12 @@ the following (with proper locking):
The device will update the status field in each AQ command reported as
executed through the ADMIN_QUEUE_EVENT_COUNTER register.
+Device Resets
+-------------
+A device reset is triggered by writing 0x0 to the AQ PFN register.
+This causes the device to release all resources allocated by the
+driver, including the AQ itself.
+
Interrupts
----------
The following interrupts are supported by the driver:
@@ -78,6 +86,9 @@ Management Interrupt
The management interrupt is used by the device to tell the driver to
look at the GVE_DEVICE_STATUS register.
+The handler for the management irq simply queues the service task in
+the workqueue to check the register and acks the irq.
+
Notification Block Interrupts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The notification block interrupts are used to tell the driver to poll