iio: core: Add new DMABUF interface infrastructure

Add the necessary infrastructure to the IIO core to support a new
optional DMABUF based interface.

With this new interface, DMABUF objects (extern

iio: core: Add new DMABUF interface infrastructure

Add the necessary infrastructure to the IIO core to support a new
optional DMABUF based interface.

With this new interface, DMABUF objects (externally created) can be
attached to a IIO buffer, and subsequently used for data transfer.

A userspace application can then use this interface to share DMABUF
objects between several interfaces, allowing it to transfer data in a
zero-copy fashion, for instance between IIO and the USB stack.

The userspace application can also memory-map the DMABUF objects, and
access the sample data directly. The advantage of doing this vs. the
read() interface is that it avoids an extra copy of the data between the
kernel and userspace. This is particularly userful for high-speed
devices which produce several megabytes or even gigabytes of data per
second.

As part of the interface, 3 new IOCTLs have been added:

IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_ATTACH_IOCTL(int fd):
Attach the DMABUF object identified by the given file descriptor to the
buffer.

IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_DETACH_IOCTL(int fd):
Detach the DMABUF object identified by the given file descriptor from
the buffer. Note that closing the IIO buffer's file descriptor will
automatically detach all previously attached DMABUF objects.

IIO_BUFFER_DMABUF_ENQUEUE_IOCTL(struct iio_dmabuf *):
Request a data transfer to/from the given DMABUF object. Its file
descriptor, as well as the transfer size and flags are provided in the
"iio_dmabuf" structure.

These three IOCTLs have to be performed on the IIO buffer's file
descriptor, obtained using the IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL() ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Nuno Sa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>

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iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO device

With this change, an ioctl() call is added to open a character device for a
buffer. The ioctl() number is 'i' 0x91, which fol

iio: buffer: add ioctl() to support opening extra buffers for IIO device

With this change, an ioctl() call is added to open a character device for a
buffer. The ioctl() number is 'i' 0x91, which follows the
IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL ioctl.

The ioctl() will return an FD for the requested buffer index. The indexes
are the same from the /sys/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY (i.e. the Y
variable).

Since there doesn't seem to be a sane way to return the FD for buffer0 to
be the same FD for the /dev/iio:deviceX, this ioctl() will return another
FD for buffer0 (or the first buffer). This duplicate FD will be able to
access the same buffer object (for buffer0) as accessing directly the
/dev/iio:deviceX chardev.

Also, there is no IIO_BUFFER_GET_BUFFER_COUNT ioctl() implemented, as the
index for each buffer (and the count) can be deduced from the
'/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY' folders (i.e the number of
bufferY folders).

Used following C code to test this:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <fcntl.h"
#include <errno.h>

#define IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL _IOWR('i', 0x91, int)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
int fd1;
int ret;

if ((fd = open("/dev/iio:device0", O_RDWR))<0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error open() %d errno %d\n",fd, errno);
return -1;
}

fprintf(stderr, "Using FD %d\n", fd);

fd1 = atoi(argv[1]);

ret = ioctl(fd, IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL, &fd1);
if (ret < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error for buffer %d ioctl() %d errno %d\n", fd1, ret, errno);
close(fd);
return -1;
}

fprintf(stderr, "Got FD %d\n", fd1);

close(fd1);
close(fd);

return 0;
}
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Results are:
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# ./test 0
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 1
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 2
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ./test 3
Using FD 3
Got FD 4

# ls /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0
buffer buffer0 buffer1 buffer2 buffer3 dev
in_voltage_sampling_frequency in_voltage_scale
in_voltage_scale_available
name of_node power scan_elements subsystem uevent
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iio:device0 has some fake kfifo buffers attached to an IIO device.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>

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