Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 1/2] net: ethernet: ti: Introduce inter-core-virt-eth as RPMsg driver

[Ravi Gunasekaran <r-gunasekaran@ti.com>]

Simon,

On 2/1/2024 7:00 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:39:43PM +0530, Ravi Gunasekaran wrote:
>> TI's K3 SoCs comprises heterogeneous processors (Cortex A, Cortex R).
>> When the ethernet controller is completely managed by a core (Cortex R)
>> running a flavor of RTOS, in a non virtualized environment, network traffic
>> tunnelling between heterogeneous processors can be realized by means of
>> RPMsg based shared memory ethernet driver. With the shared memory used
>> for the data plane and the RPMsg end point channel used for control plane.
>>
>> inter-core-virt-eth driver is modelled as a RPMsg based shared
>> memory ethernet driver for such an use case.
>>
>> As a first step, register the inter-core-virt-eth as a RPMsg driver.
>> And introduce basic control messages for querying and responding.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Siddharth Vadapalli <s-vadapalli@ti.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Gunasekaran <r-gunasekaran@ti.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.h |  89 +++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 228 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.c
>>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.h
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..d3b689eab1c0
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> Hi Ravi and Siddharth,
>
> The correct style for SPDX headers in .c files is a '//' comment:
>
> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

I will fix this.

>> +/* Texas Instruments K3 Inter Core Virtual Ethernet Driver
>> + *
>> + * Copyright (C) 2024 Texas Instruments Incorporated - https://www.ti.com/
>> + */
> ...
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/inter-core-virt-eth.h
> ...
>
>> +struct icve_common {
>> +	struct rpmsg_device *rpdev;
>> +	spinlock_t send_msg_lock;
>> +	spinlock_t recv_msg_lock;
> Spinlocks ought to come with an comment regarding what they lock.

I will add the comments as reported by checkpatch.

>
>> +	struct message send_msg;
>> +	struct message recv_msg;
>> +	struct icve_port *port;
>> +	struct device *dev;
>> +} __packed;
>> +
>> +#endif /* __INTER_CORE_VIRT_ETH_H__ */
>> -- 
>> 2.17.1
>>
>>

Ravi