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author | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/connector/connector.txt | |
parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/connector/connector.txt')
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1 files changed, 188 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/kernel/Documentation/connector/connector.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f6215f951 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +/*****************************************/ +Kernel Connector. +/*****************************************/ + +Kernel connector - new netlink based userspace <-> kernel space easy +to use communication module. + +The Connector driver makes it easy to connect various agents using a +netlink based network. One must register a callback and an identifier. +When the driver receives a special netlink message with the appropriate +identifier, the appropriate callback will be called. + +From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: + + socket(); + bind(); + send(); + recv(); + +But if kernelspace wants to use the full power of such connections, the +driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff +handling, etc... The Connector driver allows any kernelspace agents to use +netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly +easier way: + +int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *)); +void cn_netlink_send_multi(struct cn_msg *msg, u16 len, u32 portid, u32 __group, int gfp_mask); +void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 portid, u32 __group, int gfp_mask); + +struct cb_id +{ + __u32 idx; + __u32 val; +}; + +idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in the +connector.h header for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) is a +callback function which will be called when a message with above idx.val +is received by the connector core. The argument for that function must +be dereferenced to struct cn_msg *. + +struct cn_msg +{ + struct cb_id id; + + __u32 seq; + __u32 ack; + + __u32 len; /* Length of the following data */ + __u8 data[0]; +}; + +/*****************************************/ +Connector interfaces. +/*****************************************/ + +int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *)); + + Registers new callback with connector core. + + struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier. + It must be registered in connector.h for legal in-kernel users. + char *name - connector's callback symbolic name. + void (*callback) (struct cn..) - connector's callback. + cn_msg and the sender's credentials + + +void cn_del_callback(struct cb_id *id); + + Unregisters new callback with connector core. + + struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier. + + +int cn_netlink_send_multi(struct cn_msg *msg, u16 len, u32 portid, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); +int cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 portid, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); + + Sends message to the specified groups. It can be safely called from + softirq context, but may silently fail under strong memory pressure. + If there are no listeners for given group -ESRCH can be returned. + + struct cn_msg * - message header(with attached data). + u16 len - for *_multi multiple cn_msg messages can be sent + u32 port - destination port. + If non-zero the message will be sent to the + given port, which should be set to the + original sender. + u32 __group - destination group. + If port and __group is zero, then appropriate group will + be searched through all registered connector users, + and message will be delivered to the group which was + created for user with the same ID as in msg. + If __group is not zero, then message will be delivered + to the specified group. + int gfp_mask - GFP mask. + + Note: When registering new callback user, connector core assigns + netlink group to the user which is equal to its id.idx. + +/*****************************************/ +Protocol description. +/*****************************************/ + +The current framework offers a transport layer with fixed headers. The +recommended protocol which uses such a header is as following: + +msg->seq and msg->ack are used to determine message genealogy. When +someone sends a message, they use a locally unique sequence and random +acknowledge number. The sequence number may be copied into +nlmsghdr->nlmsg_seq too. + +The sequence number is incremented with each message sent. + +If you expect a reply to the message, then the sequence number in the +received message MUST be the same as in the original message, and the +acknowledge number MUST be the same + 1. + +If we receive a message and its sequence number is not equal to one we +are expecting, then it is a new message. If we receive a message and +its sequence number is the same as one we are expecting, but its +acknowledge is not equal to the sequence number in the original +message + 1, then it is a new message. + +Obviously, the protocol header contains the above id. + +The connector allows event notification in the following form: kernel +driver or userspace process can ask connector to notify it when +selected ids will be turned on or off (registered or unregistered its +callback). It is done by sending a special command to the connector +driver (it also registers itself with id={-1, -1}). + +As example of this usage can be found in the cn_test.c module which +uses the connector to request notification and to send messages. + +/*****************************************/ +Reliability. +/*****************************************/ + +Netlink itself is not a reliable protocol. That means that messages can +be lost due to memory pressure or process' receiving queue overflowed, +so caller is warned that it must be prepared. That is why the struct +cn_msg [main connector's message header] contains u32 seq and u32 ack +fields. + +/*****************************************/ +Userspace usage. +/*****************************************/ + +2.6.14 has a new netlink socket implementation, which by default does not +allow people to send data to netlink groups other than 1. +So, if you wish to use a netlink socket (for example using connector) +with a different group number, the userspace application must subscribe to +that group first. It can be achieved by the following pseudocode: + +s = socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, NETLINK_CONNECTOR); + +l_local.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; +l_local.nl_groups = 12345; +l_local.nl_pid = 0; + +if (bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&l_local, sizeof(struct sockaddr_nl)) == -1) { + perror("bind"); + close(s); + return -1; +} + +{ + int on = l_local.nl_groups; + setsockopt(s, 270, 1, &on, sizeof(on)); +} + +Where 270 above is SOL_NETLINK, and 1 is a NETLINK_ADD_MEMBERSHIP socket +option. To drop a multicast subscription, one should call the above socket +option with the NETLINK_DROP_MEMBERSHIP parameter which is defined as 0. + +2.6.14 netlink code only allows to select a group which is less or equal to +the maximum group number, which is used at netlink_kernel_create() time. +In case of connector it is CN_NETLINK_USERS + 0xf, so if you want to use +group number 12345, you must increment CN_NETLINK_USERS to that number. +Additional 0xf numbers are allocated to be used by non-in-kernel users. + +Due to this limitation, group 0xffffffff does not work now, so one can +not use add/remove connector's group notifications, but as far as I know, +only cn_test.c test module used it. + +Some work in netlink area is still being done, so things can be changed in +2.6.15 timeframe, if it will happen, documentation will be updated for that +kernel. |