[Patch v3 0/3] Introduce a driver to support host accelerated access to Microsoft Azure Blob

From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>

Microsoft Azure Blob storage service exposes a REST API to applications
for data access. While it's flexible and works on most platforms, it's
not as efficient as native network stack.

This patchset implements a VSC that communicates with a VSP on the host
to execute blob storage access via native network stack on the host.

Reference:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/#overview



Long Li (3):
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: add support to ignore certain PCIE devices
  Drivers: hv: add Azure Blob driver
  Drivers: hv: Add to maintainer for Azure Blob driver

Changes:

v2:
Refactored the code in vmbus to scan devices
Reworked Azure Blob driver and moved user-mode interfaces to uapi

v3:
Changed licensing language
Patch format passed "checkpatch --strict"
debugfs and logging, module parameter cleanup
General code clean up
Fix device removal race conditions


 Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst |   2 +
 MAINTAINERS                                        |   1 +
 drivers/hv/Kconfig                                 |  10 +
 drivers/hv/Makefile                                |   1 +
 drivers/hv/azure_blob.c                            | 625 +++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c                          |  55 +-
 include/linux/hyperv.h                             |   9 +
 include/uapi/misc/azure_blob.h                     |  34 ++
 8 files changed, 731 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/hv/azure_blob.c
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/misc/azure_blob.h

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