This involves refactoring VirtIOConsole into VirtIOConsole and
VirtIOConsolePort. VirtIOConsole is the VirtIODevice, it owns multiple
VirtIOConsolePorts as well as two control queues. Each
VirtIOConsolePort is a CharacterDevice.
Currently, when passing buffers into VirtIOQueues, we use scatter-gather
lists, which contain an internal vector of buffers. This vector is
allocated, filled and the destroy whenever we try to provide buffers
into a virtqueue, which would happen a lot in performance cricital code
(the main transport mechanism for certain paravirtualized devices).
This commit moves it over to using VirtIOQueueChains and building the
chain in place in the VirtIOQueue. Also included are a bunch of fixups
for the VirtIO Console device, making it use an internal VM::RingBuffer
instead.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
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This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This commit includes a lot of small changes and additions needed to
finalize the base implementation of VirtIOQueues and VirtDevices:
* The device specific driver implementation now has to handle setting
up the queues it needs before letting the base device class know it
finised initialization
* Supplying buffers to VirtQueues is now done via ScatterGatherLists
instead of arbitary buffer pointers - this ensures the pointers are
physical and allows us to follow the specification in regards to the
requirement that individual descriptors must point to physically
contiguous buffers. This can be further improved in the future by
implementating support for the Indirect-Descriptors feature (as
defined by the specification) to reduce descriptor usage for very
fragmented buffers.
* When supplying buffers to a VirtQueue the driver must supply a
(temporarily-)unique token (usually the supplied buffer's virtual
address) to ensure the driver can discern which buffer has finished
processing by the device in the case in which the device does not
offer the F_IN_ORDER feature.
* Device drivers now handle queue updates (supplied buffers being
returned from the device) by implementing a single pure virtual
method instead of setting a seperate callback for each queue
* Two new VirtQueue methods were added to allow the device driver
to either discard or get used/returned buffers from the device by
cleanly removing them off the descriptor chain (This also allows
the VirtQueue implementation to reuse those freed descriptors)
This also includes the necessary changes to the VirtIOConsole
implementation to match these interface changes.
Co-authored-by: Sahan <sahan.h.fernando@gmail.com>
This patch allocates a physical page for each of the virtqueues and
memcpys to it when receiving a buffer to get a physical, aligned
contiguous buffer as required by the virtio specification.
Co-authored-by: Sahan <sahan.h.fernando@gmail.com>
Raw pointers were mostly replaced with smart pointers and references
where appropriate based on kling and smartcomputer7's suggestions :)
Co-authored-by: Sahan <sahan.h.fernando@gmail.com>
Based on pull #3236 by tomuta, this is still very much WIP but will
eventually allow us to switch from the considerably slower method of
knocking on port 0xe9 for each character
Co-authored-by: Tom <tomut@yahoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Sahan <sahan.h.fernando@gmail.com>
