[PATCH 02/12] pci doc: convert PCI/pci.txt to rst format
From: Changbin Du
Date: Fri Mar 29 2019 - 12:04:44 EST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/PCI/index.rst | 2 +
Documentation/PCI/{pci.txt => pci.rst} | 218 +++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/PCI/{pci.txt => pci.rst} (80%)
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/index.rst b/Documentation/PCI/index.rst
index 11096447f535..06fce3d3c7da 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/index.rst
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ Linux PCI Bus Subsystem
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+
+ pci
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt b/Documentation/PCI/pci.rst
similarity index 80%
rename from Documentation/PCI/pci.txt
rename to Documentation/PCI/pci.rst
index badb26ac33dc..26542559bc4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
- How To Write Linux PCI Drivers
+==============================
+How To Write Linux PCI Drivers
+==============================
- by Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxx> on 07-Feb-2000
- updated by Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 23-Dec-2006
+:Authors: - Martin Mares <mj@xxxxxx> on 07-Feb-2000,
+ - updated by Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 23-Dec-2006
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The world of PCI is vast and full of (mostly unpleasant) surprises.
Since each CPU architecture implements different chip-sets and PCI devices
have different requirements (erm, "features"), the result is the PCI support
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@ Please send questions/comments/patches about Linux PCI API to the
0. Structure of PCI drivers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+===========================
PCI drivers "discover" PCI devices in a system via pci_register_driver().
Actually, it's the other way around. When the PCI generic code discovers
a new device, the driver with a matching "description" will be notified.
@@ -42,24 +44,25 @@ pointers and thus dictates the high level structure of a driver.
Once the driver knows about a PCI device and takes ownership, the
driver generally needs to perform the following initialization:
- Enable the device
- Request MMIO/IOP resources
- Set the DMA mask size (for both coherent and streaming DMA)
- Allocate and initialize shared control data (pci_allocate_coherent())
- Access device configuration space (if needed)
- Register IRQ handler (request_irq())
- Initialize non-PCI (i.e. LAN/SCSI/etc parts of the chip)
- Enable DMA/processing engines
+ - Enable the device
+ - Request MMIO/IOP resources
+ - Set the DMA mask size (for both coherent and streaming DMA)
+ - Allocate and initialize shared control data (pci_allocate_coherent())
+ - Access device configuration space (if needed)
+ - Register IRQ handler (request_irq())
+ - Initialize non-PCI (i.e. LAN/SCSI/etc parts of the chip)
+ - Enable DMA/processing engines
When done using the device, and perhaps the module needs to be unloaded,
the driver needs to take the follow steps:
- Disable the device from generating IRQs
- Release the IRQ (free_irq())
- Stop all DMA activity
- Release DMA buffers (both streaming and coherent)
- Unregister from other subsystems (e.g. scsi or netdev)
- Release MMIO/IOP resources
- Disable the device
+
+ - Disable the device from generating IRQs
+ - Release the IRQ (free_irq())
+ - Stop all DMA activity
+ - Release DMA buffers (both streaming and coherent)
+ - Unregister from other subsystems (e.g. scsi or netdev)
+ - Release MMIO/IOP resources
+ - Disable the device
Most of these topics are covered in the following sections.
For the rest look at LDD3 or <linux/pci.h> .
@@ -72,11 +75,11 @@ lots of ifdefs in the drivers.
1. pci_register_driver() call
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=============================
PCI device drivers call pci_register_driver() during their
initialization with a pointer to a structure describing the driver
-(struct pci_driver):
+(struct pci_driver)::
field name Description
---------- ------------------------------------------------------
@@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ initialization with a pointer to a structure describing the driver
The ID table is an array of struct pci_device_id entries ending with an
all-zero entry. Definitions with static const are generally preferred.
-Each entry consists of:
+Each entry consists of::
vendor,device Vendor and device ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID)
@@ -160,9 +163,10 @@ echo "vendor device subvendor subdevice class class_mask driver_data" > \
All fields are passed in as hexadecimal values (no leading 0x).
The vendor and device fields are mandatory, the others are optional. Users
need pass only as many optional fields as necessary:
- o subvendor and subdevice fields default to PCI_ANY_ID (FFFFFFFF)
- o class and classmask fields default to 0
- o driver_data defaults to 0UL.
+
+ - subvendor and subdevice fields default to PCI_ANY_ID (FFFFFFFF)
+ - class and classmask fields default to 0
+ - driver_data defaults to 0UL.
Note that driver_data must match the value used by any of the pci_device_id
entries defined in the driver. This makes the driver_data field mandatory
@@ -176,28 +180,29 @@ automatically calls the remove hook for all devices handled by the driver.
1.1 "Attributes" for driver functions/data
+------------------------------------------
Please mark the initialization and cleanup functions where appropriate
-(the corresponding macros are defined in <linux/init.h>):
+(the corresponding macros are defined in <linux/init.h>)::
__init Initialization code. Thrown away after the driver
initializes.
__exit Exit code. Ignored for non-modular drivers.
Tips on when/where to use the above attributes:
- o The module_init()/module_exit() functions (and all
+ - The module_init()/module_exit() functions (and all
initialization functions called _only_ from these)
should be marked __init/__exit.
- o Do not mark the struct pci_driver.
+ - Do not mark the struct pci_driver.
- o Do NOT mark a function if you are not sure which mark to use.
+ - Do NOT mark a function if you are not sure which mark to use.
Better to not mark the function than mark the function wrong.
2. How to find PCI devices manually
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+===================================
PCI drivers should have a really good reason for not using the
pci_register_driver() interface to search for PCI devices.
@@ -207,17 +212,17 @@ E.g. combined serial/parallel port/floppy controller.
A manual search may be performed using the following constructs:
-Searching by vendor and device ID:
+Searching by vendor and device ID::
struct pci_dev *dev = NULL;
while (dev = pci_get_device(VENDOR_ID, DEVICE_ID, dev))
configure_device(dev);
-Searching by class ID (iterate in a similar way):
+Searching by class ID (iterate in a similar way)::
pci_get_class(CLASS_ID, dev)
-Searching by both vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device ID:
+Searching by both vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device ID::
pci_get_subsys(VENDOR_ID,DEVICE_ID, SUBSYS_VENDOR_ID, SUBSYS_DEVICE_ID, dev).
@@ -232,19 +237,19 @@ decrement the reference count on these devices by calling pci_dev_put().
3. Device Initialization Steps
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+==============================
As noted in the introduction, most PCI drivers need the following steps
for device initialization:
- Enable the device
- Request MMIO/IOP resources
- Set the DMA mask size (for both coherent and streaming DMA)
- Allocate and initialize shared control data (pci_allocate_coherent())
- Access device configuration space (if needed)
- Register IRQ handler (request_irq())
- Initialize non-PCI (i.e. LAN/SCSI/etc parts of the chip)
- Enable DMA/processing engines.
+ - Enable the device
+ - Request MMIO/IOP resources
+ - Set the DMA mask size (for both coherent and streaming DMA)
+ - Allocate and initialize shared control data (pci_allocate_coherent())
+ - Access device configuration space (if needed)
+ - Register IRQ handler (request_irq())
+ - Initialize non-PCI (i.e. LAN/SCSI/etc parts of the chip)
+ - Enable DMA/processing engines.
The driver can access PCI config space registers at any time.
(Well, almost. When running BIST, config space can go away...but
@@ -253,16 +258,17 @@ will return garbage).
3.1 Enable the PCI device
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------------
Before touching any device registers, the driver needs to enable
the PCI device by calling pci_enable_device(). This will:
- o wake up the device if it was in suspended state,
- o allocate I/O and memory regions of the device (if BIOS did not),
- o allocate an IRQ (if BIOS did not).
-NOTE: pci_enable_device() can fail! Check the return value.
+ - wake up the device if it was in suspended state,
+ - allocate I/O and memory regions of the device (if BIOS did not),
+ - allocate an IRQ (if BIOS did not).
-[ OS BUG: we don't check resource allocations before enabling those
+.. note:: pci_enable_device() can fail! Check the return value.
+
+.. warning:: OS BUG: we don't check resource allocations before enabling those
resources. The sequence would make more sense if we called
pci_request_resources() before calling pci_enable_device().
Currently, the device drivers can't detect the bug when when two
@@ -271,7 +277,7 @@ NOTE: pci_enable_device() can fail! Check the return value.
This has been discussed before but not changed as of 2.6.19:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/3/2/194
-]
+
pci_set_master() will enable DMA by setting the bus master bit
in the PCI_COMMAND register. It also fixes the latency timer value if
@@ -289,7 +295,7 @@ Mem-Wr-Inval.
3.2 Request MMIO/IOP resources
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------------
Memory (MMIO), and I/O port addresses should NOT be read directly
from the PCI device config space. Use the values in the pci_dev structure
as the PCI "bus address" might have been remapped to a "host physical"
@@ -304,9 +310,9 @@ Conversely, drivers should call pci_release_region() AFTER
calling pci_disable_device().
The idea is to prevent two devices colliding on the same address range.
-[ See OS BUG comment above. Currently (2.6.19), The driver can only
+.. tip:: See OS BUG comment above. Currently (2.6.19), The driver can only
determine MMIO and IO Port resource availability _after_ calling
- pci_enable_device(). ]
+ pci_enable_device().
Generic flavors of pci_request_region() are request_mem_region()
(for MMIO ranges) and request_region() (for IO Port ranges).
@@ -317,11 +323,11 @@ Also see pci_request_selected_regions() below.
3.3 Set the DMA mask size
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-[ If anything below doesn't make sense, please refer to
+-------------------------
+.. note:: If anything below doesn't make sense, please refer to
Documentation/DMA-API.txt. This section is just a reminder that
drivers need to indicate DMA capabilities of the device and is not
- an authoritative source for DMA interfaces. ]
+ an authoritative source for DMA interfaces.
While all drivers should explicitly indicate the DMA capability
(e.g. 32 or 64 bit) of the PCI bus master, devices with more than
@@ -343,7 +349,7 @@ Many 64-bit "PCI" devices (before PCI-X) and some PCI-X devices are
3.4 Setup shared control data
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-----------------------------
Once the DMA masks are set, the driver can allocate "consistent" (a.k.a. shared)
memory. See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for a full description of
the DMA APIs. This section is just a reminder that it needs to be done
@@ -351,14 +357,14 @@ before enabling DMA on the device.
3.5 Initialize device registers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------------------
Some drivers will need specific "capability" fields programmed
or other "vendor specific" register initialized or reset.
E.g. clearing pending interrupts.
3.6 Register IRQ handler
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------
While calling request_irq() is the last step described here,
this is often just another intermediate step to initialize a device.
This step can often be deferred until the device is opened for use.
@@ -396,6 +402,7 @@ and msix_enabled flags in the pci_dev structure after calling
pci_alloc_irq_vectors.
There are (at least) two really good reasons for using MSI:
+
1) MSI is an exclusive interrupt vector by definition.
This means the interrupt handler doesn't have to verify
its device caused the interrupt.
@@ -412,22 +419,22 @@ of MSI/MSI-X usage.
4. PCI device shutdown
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+======================
When a PCI device driver is being unloaded, most of the following
steps need to be performed:
- Disable the device from generating IRQs
- Release the IRQ (free_irq())
- Stop all DMA activity
- Release DMA buffers (both streaming and consistent)
- Unregister from other subsystems (e.g. scsi or netdev)
- Disable device from responding to MMIO/IO Port addresses
- Release MMIO/IO Port resource(s)
+ - Disable the device from generating IRQs
+ - Release the IRQ (free_irq())
+ - Stop all DMA activity
+ - Release DMA buffers (both streaming and consistent)
+ - Unregister from other subsystems (e.g. scsi or netdev)
+ - Disable device from responding to MMIO/IO Port addresses
+ - Release MMIO/IO Port resource(s)
4.1 Stop IRQs on the device
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+---------------------------
How to do this is chip/device specific. If it's not done, it opens
the possibility of a "screaming interrupt" if (and only if)
the IRQ is shared with another device.
@@ -447,7 +454,7 @@ are not susceptible to the "screaming interrupt" problem.
4.2 Release the IRQ
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------
Once the device is quiesced (no more IRQs), one can call free_irq().
This function will return control once any pending IRQs are handled,
"unhook" the drivers IRQ handler from that IRQ, and finally release
@@ -455,7 +462,7 @@ the IRQ if no one else is using it.
4.3 Stop all DMA activity
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-------------------------
It's extremely important to stop all DMA operations BEFORE attempting
to deallocate DMA control data. Failure to do so can result in memory
corruption, hangs, and on some chip-sets a hard crash.
@@ -468,7 +475,7 @@ didn't get this step right in the past.
4.4 Release DMA buffers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+-----------------------
Once DMA is stopped, clean up streaming DMA first.
I.e. unmap data buffers and return buffers to "upstream"
owners if there is one.
@@ -479,7 +486,7 @@ See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for details on unmapping interfaces.
4.5 Unregister from other subsystems
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------------------
Most low level PCI device drivers support some other subsystem
like USB, ALSA, SCSI, NetDev, Infiniband, etc. Make sure your
driver isn't losing resources from that other subsystem.
@@ -488,30 +495,30 @@ the subsystem attempts to call into a driver that has been unloaded.
4.6 Disable Device from responding to MMIO/IO Port addresses
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+~-----------------------------------------------------------
io_unmap() MMIO or IO Port resources and then call pci_disable_device().
This is the symmetric opposite of pci_enable_device().
Do not access device registers after calling pci_disable_device().
4.7 Release MMIO/IO Port Resource(s)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+------------------------------------
Call pci_release_region() to mark the MMIO or IO Port range as available.
Failure to do so usually results in the inability to reload the driver.
5. How to access PCI config space
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=================================
-You can use pci_(read|write)_config_(byte|word|dword) to access the config
-space of a device represented by struct pci_dev *. All these functions return 0
-when successful or an error code (PCIBIOS_...) which can be translated to a text
-string by pcibios_strerror. Most drivers expect that accesses to valid PCI
+You can use `pci_(read|write)_config_(byte|word|dword)` to access the config
+space of a device represented by `struct pci_dev *`. All these functions return
+0 when successful or an error code (`PCIBIOS_...`) which can be translated to a
+text string by pcibios_strerror. Most drivers expect that accesses to valid PCI
devices don't fail.
If you don't have a struct pci_dev available, you can call
-pci_bus_(read|write)_config_(byte|word|dword) to access a given device
+`pci_bus_(read|write)_config_(byte|word|dword)` to access a given device
and function on that bus.
If you access fields in the standard portion of the config header, please
@@ -522,28 +529,29 @@ pci_find_capability() for the particular capability and it will find the
corresponding register block for you.
-
6. Other interesting functions
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+==============================
-pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() Find pci_dev corresponding to given domain,
- bus and slot and number. If the device is
- found, its reference count is increased.
-pci_set_power_state() Set PCI Power Management state (0=D0 ... 3=D3)
-pci_find_capability() Find specified capability in device's capability
+::
+
+ pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() Find pci_dev corresponding to given domain,
+ bus and slot and number. If the device is
+ found, its reference count is increased.
+ pci_set_power_state() Set PCI Power Management state (0=D0 ... 3=D3)
+ pci_find_capability() Find specified capability in device's capability
list.
-pci_resource_start() Returns bus start address for a given PCI region
-pci_resource_end() Returns bus end address for a given PCI region
-pci_resource_len() Returns the byte length of a PCI region
-pci_set_drvdata() Set private driver data pointer for a pci_dev
-pci_get_drvdata() Return private driver data pointer for a pci_dev
-pci_set_mwi() Enable Memory-Write-Invalidate transactions.
-pci_clear_mwi() Disable Memory-Write-Invalidate transactions.
+ pci_resource_start() Returns bus start address for a given PCI region
+ pci_resource_end() Returns bus end address for a given PCI region
+ pci_resource_len() Returns the byte length of a PCI region
+ pci_set_drvdata() Set private driver data pointer for a pci_dev
+ pci_get_drvdata() Return private driver data pointer for a pci_dev
+ pci_set_mwi() Enable Memory-Write-Invalidate transactions.
+ pci_clear_mwi() Disable Memory-Write-Invalidate transactions.
7. Miscellaneous hints
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+======================
When displaying PCI device names to the user (for example when a driver wants
to tell the user what card has it found), please use pci_name(pci_dev).
@@ -561,7 +569,7 @@ to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers.
8. Vendor and device identifications
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+====================================
Do not add new device or vendor IDs to include/linux/pci_ids.h unless they
are shared across multiple drivers. You can add private definitions in
@@ -577,17 +585,19 @@ and https://github.com/pciutils/pciids.
9. Obsolete functions
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+=====================
There are several functions which you might come across when trying to
port an old driver to the new PCI interface. They are no longer present
in the kernel as they aren't compatible with hotplug or PCI domains or
having sane locking.
-pci_find_device() Superseded by pci_get_device()
-pci_find_subsys() Superseded by pci_get_subsys()
-pci_find_slot() Superseded by pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()
-pci_get_slot() Superseded by pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()
+::
+
+ pci_find_device() Superseded by pci_get_device()
+ pci_find_subsys() Superseded by pci_get_subsys()
+ pci_find_slot() Superseded by pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()
+ pci_get_slot() Superseded by pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot()
The alternative is the traditional PCI device driver that walks PCI
@@ -596,7 +606,7 @@ device lists. This is still possible but discouraged.
10. MMIO Space and "Write Posting"
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+==================================
Converting a driver from using I/O Port space to using MMIO space
often requires some additional changes. Specifically, "write posting"
@@ -609,14 +619,14 @@ the CPU before the transaction has reached its destination.
Thus, timing sensitive code should add readl() where the CPU is
expected to wait before doing other work. The classic "bit banging"
-sequence works fine for I/O Port space:
+sequence works fine for I/O Port space::
for (i = 8; --i; val >>= 1) {
outb(val & 1, ioport_reg); /* write bit */
udelay(10);
}
-The same sequence for MMIO space should be:
+The same sequence for MMIO space should be::
for (i = 8; --i; val >>= 1) {
writeb(val & 1, mmio_reg); /* write bit */
--
2.20.1