ublk_drv: add io_uring based userspace block driver

This is the driver part of userspace block driver(ublk driver), the other
part is userspace daemon part(ublksrv)[1].

The two parts communicate by io_uring's IORING_OP_URING_CMD with one
shared cmd buffer for storing io command, and the buffer is read only for
ublksrv, each io command is indexed by io request tag directly, and is
written by ublk driver.

For example, when one READ io request is submitted to ublk block driver,
ublk driver stores the io command into cmd buffer first, then completes
one IORING_OP_URING_CMD for notifying ublksrv, and the URING_CMD is issued
to ublk driver beforehand by ublksrv for getting notification of any new
io request, and each URING_CMD is associated with one io request by tag.

After ublksrv gets the io command, it translates and handles the ublk io
request, such as, for the ublk-loop target, ublksrv translates the request
into same request on another file or disk, like the kernel loop block
driver. In ublksrv's implementation, the io is still handled by io_uring,
and share same ring with IORING_OP_URING_CMD command. When the target io
request is done, the same IORING_OP_URING_CMD is issued to ublk driver for
both committing io request result and getting future notification of new
io request.

Another thing done by ublk driver is to copy data between kernel io
request and ublksrv's io buffer:

1) before ubsrv handles WRITE request, copy the request's data into
   ublksrv's userspace io buffer, so that ublksrv can handle the write
   request

2) after ubsrv handles READ request, copy ublksrv's userspace io buffer
   into this READ request, then ublk driver can complete the READ request

Zero copy may be switched if mm is ready to support it.

ublk driver doesn't handle any logic of the specific user space driver,
so it is small/simple enough.

[1] ublksrv

https://github.com/ming1/ubdsrv

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220713140711.97356-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/Makefile b/drivers/block/Makefile
index 934a9c7c3a7c..be631352567e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/block/Makefile
@@ -39,4 +39,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RNBD)	+= rnbd/
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK)	+= null_blk/
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UBLK)			+= ublk_drv.o
+
 swim_mod-y	:= swim.o swim_asm.o