From ad6ce87e5bd4440a6ce9aa9f8cda795b9e902eff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Abhay Salunke Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:29:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanism In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/dell_rbu.txt | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt index 95d7f62e4db..941343a7a26 100644 --- a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt +++ b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ The driver load creates the following directories under the /sys file system. /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data +/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size The driver supports two types of update mechanism; monolithic and packetized. These update mechanism depends upon the BIOS currently running on the system. @@ -47,8 +48,26 @@ By default the driver uses monolithic memory for the update type. This can be changed to packets during the driver load time by specifying the load parameter image_type=packet. This can also be changed later as below echo packet > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type -Also echoing either mono ,packet or init in to image_type will free up the -memory allocated by the driver. + +In packet update mode the packet size has to be given before any packets can +be downloaded. It is done as below +echo XXXX > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size +In the packet update mechanism, the user neesd to create a new file having +packets of data arranged back to back. It can be done as follows +The user creates packets header, gets the chunk of the BIOS image and +placs it next to the packetheader; now, the packetheader + BIOS image chunk +added to geather should match the specified packet_size. This makes one +packet, the user needs to create more such packets out of the entire BIOS +image file and then arrange all these packets back to back in to one single +file. +This file is then copied to /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data. +Once this file gets to the driver, the driver extracts packet_size data from +the file and spreads it accross the physical memory in contiguous packet_sized +space. +This method makes sure that all the packets get to the driver in a single operation. + +In monolithic update the user simply get the BIOS image (.hdr file) and copies +to the data file as is without any change to the BIOS image itself. Do the steps below to download the BIOS image. 1) echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading @@ -58,7 +77,10 @@ Do the steps below to download the BIOS image. The /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/ entries will remain till the following is done. echo -1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading. -Until this step is completed the drivr cannot be unloaded. +Until this step is completed the driver cannot be unloaded. +Also echoing either mono ,packet or init in to image_type will free up the +memory allocated by the driver. + If an user by accident executes steps 1 and 3 above without executing step 2; it will make the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/ entries to disappear. The entries can be recreated by doing the following @@ -66,15 +88,11 @@ echo init > /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type NOTE: echoing init in image_type does not change it original value. Also the driver provides /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data readonly file to -read back the image downloaded. This is useful in case of packet update -mechanism where the above steps 1,2,3 will repeated for every packet. -By reading the /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data file all packet data -downloaded can be verified in a single file. -The packets are arranged in this file one after the other in a FIFO order. +read back the image downloaded. NOTE: -This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the addition -of request_firmware_nowait_nohotplug function to wortk +This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the modified +request_firmware_nowait function. Also after updating the BIOS image an user mdoe application neeeds to execute code which message the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates it self. -- cgit v1.2.3 From eb0d6041143fae63410c5622fef96862e6b20933 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:42:04 -0700 Subject: [CONNECTOR]: Update documentation to match reality. Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes about socket options, multicasting and group number. Please concider for 2.6.14. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/connector/connector.txt | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt index 54a0a14bfbe..57a314b14cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt +++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt @@ -131,3 +131,47 @@ Netlink itself is not reliable protocol, that means that messages can be lost due to memory pressure or process' receiving queue overflowed, so caller is warned must be prepared. That is why 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 to send data to netlink groups other than 1. +So, if to use netlink socket (for example using connector) +with different group number userspace application must subscribe to +that group. It can be achieved by 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 multicast subscription one should call above socket option +with 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. -- cgit v1.2.3