Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2023-03-27

Re: [PATCH 5/5] doc: Add documentation for the User Mode Driver management library

From: Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
Date: 2023-03-22 12:34:27
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 03:52:40PM +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
+The `UMD Manager` is the frontend interface to any user or
+kernel-originated request. It invokes the `UMD Loader` to start the
+`UMD Handler`, and communicates with the latter to satisfy the request.
+
+The `UMD Loader` is merely responsible to extract the `user binary` from
+the kernel module, copy it to a tmpfs filesystem, fork the current process,
+start the `UMD Handler`, and create a pipe for the communication between
+the `UMD Manager` and the `UMD Handler`.
+
+The `UMD Handler` reads requests from the `UMD Manager`, processes them
+internally, and sends the response to it.
I think you can write out the full forms (UMD manager, UMD loader, and
UMD handler) once and for subsequent mentions of these, UMD can be
omitted, since the manager/loader/handler will obviously refers to the
UMD one.

Otherwise LGTM, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <redacted>

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