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Message-Id: <e449da7a4f5140ccc09e91627f9722260a766dfb.1592203542.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:46:57 +0200
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>,
Haren Myneni <haren@...ux.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH 18/29] docs: powerpc: fix some issues at vas-api.rst
There are a few issues on this document, when built via the
building with ``make htmldocs``:
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:116: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:116: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:117: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:117: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:120: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:124: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:133: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:135: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:150: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:151: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:161: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:176: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:253: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:253: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:259: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:261: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:266: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:267: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:270: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:271: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:273: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:274: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:277: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:278: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:280: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:287: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst:289: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Fixes: c12e38b1d52e ("Documentation/powerpc: VAS API")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
---
Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
index 1217c2f1595e..b7fdbe560010 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ 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
@@ -110,6 +111,7 @@ 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
@@ -119,8 +121,10 @@ a connection with NX co-processor engine:
__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
+ 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.
@@ -129,7 +133,8 @@ a connection with NX co-processor engine:
and must be set to 0.
The attributes attr for the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl are defined as
- follows:
+ follows::
+
#define VAS_MAGIC 'v'
#define VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN _IOW(VAS_MAGIC, 1,
struct vas_tx_win_open_attr)
@@ -141,6 +146,8 @@ a connection with NX co-processor engine:
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
@@ -149,6 +156,7 @@ a connection with NX co-processor engine:
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.
@@ -158,11 +166,13 @@ 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
@@ -170,10 +180,12 @@ that the application can use to copy/paste its CRB to the hardware engines.
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
==================================
@@ -210,7 +222,7 @@ 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:
+updating CSB with the following data::
csb.flags = CSB_V;
csb.cc = CSB_CC_TRANSLATION;
@@ -223,7 +235,7 @@ 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:
+issued. This signal returns with the following siginfo struct::
siginfo.si_signo = SIGSEGV;
siginfo.si_errno = EFAULT;
@@ -248,6 +260,7 @@ Simple example
==============
::
+
int use_nx_gzip()
{
int rc, fd;
--
2.26.2
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