linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Introduce CAVIUM

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Message-Id: <20220725091740.28188-2-alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:17:39 +0200
From:   Alexander A Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
To:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Introduce CAVIUM_RESERVE32 Kconfig option

From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>

This options is used to reserve a shared memory region for user processes
to use for hardware memory buffers. The actual code to support the option
comes in the following patch.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...ia.com>
---
 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
index 4984e46..c1899f1 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/Kconfig
@@ -67,6 +67,18 @@ config CAVIUM_OCTEON_LOCK_L2_MEMCPY
 	help
 	  Lock the kernel's implementation of memcpy() into L2.
 
+config CAVIUM_RESERVE32
+	int "Memory to reserve for user processes shared region (MB)"
+	range 0 1536
+	default "0"
+	help
+	  Reserve a shared memory region for user processes to use for hardware
+	  memory buffers. This is required for 32bit applications to be able to
+	  send and receive packets directly. Applications access this memory by
+	  memory mapping /dev/mem for the addresses in /proc/octeon_info. For
+	  optimal performance with HugeTLBs, keep this size an even number of
+	  megabytes.
+
 config OCTEON_ILM
 	tristate "Module to measure interrupt latency using Octeon CIU Timer"
 	help
-- 
2.10.2