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authorMikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@arm.com>2023-10-30 11:10:56 +0100
committerMikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@arm.com>2023-11-06 09:36:00 +0100
commitc081e5954cd92165b139488e76bdfef1402acee6 (patch)
tree32bc237c124e21f12287150cba040c87c8e8b7e3 /docs/kernel_network.puml
parent9c999fdd40c0bf2ae420f6f3bfe013dc6baa73c1 (diff)
downloadethos-u-linux-driver-stack-c081e5954cd92165b139488e76bdfef1402acee6.tar.gz
Change create network UAPI to take a user buffer
To not allow the buffer for a network instance to be changed after creation, the create network UAPI will now take the network model data as a user buffer. The content of the user buffer is copied into an internally allocated DMA buffer that cannot be accessed by the user. This breaks the current API so the Linux kernel NPU driver version and the driver library version have been given major version bumps. All the tests, documentation and other applications affected by the changes have been updated accordingly. Change-Id: I25c785d75a24794c3db632e4abe5cfbb1c7ac190 Signed-off-by: Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/kernel_network.puml')
-rw-r--r--docs/kernel_network.puml8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/kernel_network.puml b/docs/kernel_network.puml
index 39c7f55..b9136ce 100644
--- a/docs/kernel_network.puml
+++ b/docs/kernel_network.puml
@@ -24,16 +24,16 @@ activate main
note over main
Create device
- Allocate and fill network buffer
+ Provide user buffer with network model
end note
-main -> dnet++: Network(device, buffer)
- dnet -> kdev++: ioctl(NETWORK_CREATE, buffer)
+main -> dnet++: Network(device, user_buffer, size)
+ dnet -> kdev++: ioctl(NETWORK_CREATE, user_buffer, size)
note over knet
Create network and return file descriptor
end note
- kdev -> knet++: create(buffer)
+ kdev -> knet++: create(user_buffer, size)
return file descriptor
return file descriptor
return