No need to start the wq every time the mbox is initialized, it must be
done once for all the instances (it is shared by all the instances).
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Introduce a new RPMsg with static VRINGs backend. This new backend makes
easy to generate and use IPC instances backed by OpenAMP using the DT.
Each instance is defined in the DT as (for example):
ipc: ipc {
compatible = "zephyr,ipc-openamp-static-vrings";
shm = <&sram_ipc0>;
mboxes = <&mbox 0>, <&mbox 1>;
mbox-names = "tx", "rx";
role = "primary";
status = "okay";
};
It is then possible to register an send data through endpoints using the
IPC service APIs.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Extend the RPMsg structs to accommodate for the introduction of new
backends and contextually fix the ipc_rpmsg_static_vrings_mi backend
(the only user).
Rework also some comments and ipc_service glue code.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
The IPC libraries will be used by several backends. Move the libraries
out in a new 'lib' directory.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
As part of the work to support multiple IPC instances / backends using
IPC service, the static vrings mi code must be reworked to resemble a
classic device driver.
Fix also the sample using it.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
The IPC service code is currently assuming that only one IPC instance
does exist and the user can use the IPC service API to interface with
that singleton instance.
This is a huge limitation and this patch is trying to fix this
assumption introducing three major changes to the IPC service API:
- All the IPC instances are now supposed to be instantiated as a struct
device. A new test is introduced to be used as skeleton for all the
other backends.
- ipc_service_register_backend() is now removed (because multiple
backends are now supported at the same time).
- All the other ipc_service_*() functions are now taking a struct device
pointer as parameter to specify on which instance the user is going to
act and operate.
In this patch the documentation is also extended to better clarify the
terminology used.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Only one single IPC service backend is currently present: multi_instance
backend. This backend is heavily relying on the RPMsg multi_instance
code to instanciate and manage instances and endpoints. Samples exist
for both in the samples/subsys/ipc/ directory.
With this patch we are "unpacking" the RPMsg multi_service code to make
it more modular and reusable by different backends.
In particular we are re-organizing the code into two helper libraries:
an RPMsg library and a VRING / virtqueues static allocation library. At
the same time we rewrite the multi_instance backend to make fully use of
those new libraries and remove the old multi_instance sample.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
This patch is the first step to make the rpmsg_multi_instance usable in
a multi-core scenario.
The current driver is using a local driver variable (instance) to track
the number of allocated instances. This counter is practically used to
allocate to the instance the correct portion of the shared memory.
This is fundamentally wrong because this is assuming that it does exist
only one single shared memory region to split amongs all the allocated
instances. When the platform has more than one core this is obviously
not the case since each couple of cores are communicating using a
different memory region.
To solve this issue we introduce a new struct rpmsg_mi_ctx_shm_cfg that
is doing two things: (1) it's carrying the information about the shared
memory and (2) it's carrying an internal variable used to track the
instances allocated in that region. The same struct should be used every
time a new instance is allocated in the same shared memory region.
We also fix a problem with the current code where there is a race
between threads when accessing the instance variable, so this patch is
adding a serializing mutex.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
For the instance configuration the rpmsg_multi_instance code is
currently using a set of configuration info coming from two different
sources: the rpsmg_mi_ctx_cfg struct and Kconfig.
This is not only confusing but it's preventing to configure the
instances using information not coming from Kconfig (for example if we
want to configure the instance using DT).
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
In the current code the naming of the
CONFIG_RPMSG_MULTI_INSTANCE_?_IPM_{TX,RX}_NAME symbol is 1-based. While
this is not currently an issue, it could easily become such if the
symbol is programmatically used as part of a preprocessor enumeration
(for example when using DT_INST_FOREACH_STATUS_OKAY(...) & co).
To avoid trouble, just make the index starting from 0 instead than 1.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
