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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/3] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver
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This is the same v3 but with the correct email address of Greg. In the 
first iteration the first letter of the email was missing... ;)

On 10/04/15 23:43, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> This series add support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts to uio_pci_generic driver.
>
> Currently uio_pci_generic supports only legacy INT#x interrupts source. However
> there are situations when this is not enough, for instance SR-IOV VF devices that
> simply don't have INT#x capability. For such devices uio_pci_generic will simply
> fail (more specifically probe() will fail).
>
> When IOMMU is either not available (e.g. Amazon EC2) or not acceptable due to performance
> overhead and thus VFIO is not an option users that develop user-space drivers are left
> without any option but to develop some proprietary UIO drivers (e.g. igb_uio driver in Intel's
> DPDK) just to be able to use UIO infrastructure.
>
> This series provides a generic solution for this problem while preserving the original behaviour
> for devices for which the original uio_pci_generic had worked before (i.e. INT#x will be used by default).
>
> New in v3:
> - Add __iomem qualifier to temp buffer receiving ioremap value.
>
> New in v2:
> - Added #include <linux/uaccess.h> to uio_pci_generic.c
>
> Vlad Zolotarov (3):
> uio: add ioctl support
> uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support
> Documentation: update uio-howto
>
> Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 29 ++-
> drivers/uio/uio.c | 15 ++
> drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c | 410 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/uio_driver.h | 3 +
> include/linux/uio_pci_generic.h | 36 +++
> 5 files changed, 467 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/uio_pci_generic.h
>



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