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diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/pci.rst b/Documentation/PCI/pci.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6864f9a70f5f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/PCI/pci.rst @@ -0,0 +1,578 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================== +How To Write Linux PCI Drivers +============================== + +:Authors: - Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> + - Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> + +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 +in the Linux kernel is not as trivial as one would wish. This short paper +tries to introduce all potential driver authors to Linux APIs for +PCI device drivers. + +A more complete resource is the third edition of "Linux Device Drivers" +by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman. +LDD3 is available for free (under Creative Commons License) from: +http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/. + +However, keep in mind that all documents are subject to "bit rot". +Refer to the source code if things are not working as described here. + +Please send questions/comments/patches about Linux PCI API to the +"Linux PCI" <linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> mailing list. + + +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. +Details on this below. + +pci_register_driver() leaves most of the probing for devices to +the PCI layer and supports online insertion/removal of devices [thus +supporting hot-pluggable PCI, CardBus, and Express-Card in a single driver]. +pci_register_driver() call requires passing in a table of function +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 + +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 + +Most of these topics are covered in the following sections. +For the rest look at LDD3 or <linux/pci.h> . + +If the PCI subsystem is not configured (CONFIG_PCI is not set), most of +the PCI functions described below are defined as inline functions either +completely empty or just returning an appropriate error codes to avoid +lots of ifdefs in the drivers. + + +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``): + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/pci.h + :functions: pci_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. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/mod_devicetable.h + :functions: pci_device_id + +Most drivers only need ``PCI_DEVICE()`` or ``PCI_DEVICE_CLASS()`` to set up +a pci_device_id table. + +New PCI IDs may be added to a device driver pci_ids table at runtime +as shown below:: + + echo "vendor device subvendor subdevice class class_mask driver_data" > \ + /sys/bus/pci/drivers/{driver}/new_id + +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: + + - 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 +if all the pci_device_id entries have a non-zero driver_data value. + +Once added, the driver probe routine will be invoked for any unclaimed +PCI devices listed in its (newly updated) pci_ids list. + +When the driver exits, it just calls pci_unregister_driver() and the PCI layer +automatically calls the remove hook for all devices handled by the driver. + + +"Attributes" for driver functions/data +-------------------------------------- + +Please mark the initialization and cleanup functions where appropriate +(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: + - The module_init()/module_exit() functions (and all + initialization functions called _only_ from these) + should be marked __init/__exit. + + - Do not mark the struct pci_driver. + + - 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. + + +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. +The main reason PCI devices are controlled by multiple drivers +is because one PCI device implements several different HW services. +E.g. combined serial/parallel port/floppy controller. + +A manual search may be performed using the following constructs: + +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):: + + pci_get_class(CLASS_ID, dev) + +Searching by both vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device ID:: + + pci_get_subsys(VENDOR_ID,DEVICE_ID, SUBSYS_VENDOR_ID, SUBSYS_DEVICE_ID, dev). + +You can use the constant PCI_ANY_ID as a wildcard replacement for +VENDOR_ID or DEVICE_ID. This allows searching for any device from a +specific vendor, for example. + +These functions are hotplug-safe. They increment the reference count on +the pci_dev that they return. You must eventually (possibly at module unload) +decrement the reference count on these devices by calling pci_dev_put(). + + +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. + +The driver can access PCI config space registers at any time. +(Well, almost. When running BIST, config space can go away...but +that will just result in a PCI Bus Master Abort and config reads +will return garbage). + + +Enable the PCI device +--------------------- +Before touching any device registers, the driver needs to enable +the PCI device by calling pci_enable_device(). This will: + + - 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). + +.. 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 + devices have been allocated the same range. This is not a common + problem and unlikely to get fixed soon. + + 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 +it's set to something bogus by the BIOS. pci_clear_master() will +disable DMA by clearing the bus master bit. + +If the PCI device can use the PCI Memory-Write-Invalidate transaction, +call pci_set_mwi(). This enables the PCI_COMMAND bit for Mem-Wr-Inval +and also ensures that the cache line size register is set correctly. +Check the return value of pci_set_mwi() as not all architectures +or chip-sets may support Memory-Write-Invalidate. Alternatively, +if Mem-Wr-Inval would be nice to have but is not required, call +pci_try_set_mwi() to have the system do its best effort at enabling +Mem-Wr-Inval. + + +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" +address by the arch/chip-set specific kernel support. + +See Documentation/io-mapping.txt for how to access device registers +or device memory. + +The device driver needs to call pci_request_region() to verify +no other device is already using the same address resource. +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. + +.. 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(). + +Generic flavors of pci_request_region() are request_mem_region() +(for MMIO ranges) and request_region() (for IO Port ranges). +Use these for address resources that are not described by "normal" PCI +BARs. + +Also see pci_request_selected_regions() below. + + +Set the DMA mask size +--------------------- +.. 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. + +While all drivers should explicitly indicate the DMA capability +(e.g. 32 or 64 bit) of the PCI bus master, devices with more than +32-bit bus master capability for streaming data need the driver +to "register" this capability by calling pci_set_dma_mask() with +appropriate parameters. In general this allows more efficient DMA +on systems where System RAM exists above 4G _physical_ address. + +Drivers for all PCI-X and PCIe compliant devices must call +pci_set_dma_mask() as they are 64-bit DMA devices. + +Similarly, drivers must also "register" this capability if the device +can directly address "consistent memory" in System RAM above 4G physical +address by calling pci_set_consistent_dma_mask(). +Again, this includes drivers for all PCI-X and PCIe compliant devices. +Many 64-bit "PCI" devices (before PCI-X) and some PCI-X devices are +64-bit DMA capable for payload ("streaming") data but not control +("consistent") data. + + +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 +before enabling DMA on the device. + + +Initialize device registers +--------------------------- +Some drivers will need specific "capability" fields programmed +or other "vendor specific" register initialized or reset. +E.g. clearing pending interrupts. + + +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. + +All interrupt handlers for IRQ lines should be registered with IRQF_SHARED +and use the devid to map IRQs to devices (remember that all PCI IRQ lines +can be shared). + +request_irq() will associate an interrupt handler and device handle +with an interrupt number. Historically interrupt numbers represent +IRQ lines which run from the PCI device to the Interrupt controller. +With MSI and MSI-X (more below) the interrupt number is a CPU "vector". + +request_irq() also enables the interrupt. Make sure the device is +quiesced and does not have any interrupts pending before registering +the interrupt handler. + +MSI and MSI-X are PCI capabilities. Both are "Message Signaled Interrupts" +which deliver interrupts to the CPU via a DMA write to a Local APIC. +The fundamental difference between MSI and MSI-X is how multiple +"vectors" get allocated. MSI requires contiguous blocks of vectors +while MSI-X can allocate several individual ones. + +MSI capability can be enabled by calling pci_alloc_irq_vectors() with the +PCI_IRQ_MSI and/or PCI_IRQ_MSIX flags before calling request_irq(). This +causes the PCI support to program CPU vector data into the PCI device +capability registers. Many architectures, chip-sets, or BIOSes do NOT +support MSI or MSI-X and a call to pci_alloc_irq_vectors with just +the PCI_IRQ_MSI and PCI_IRQ_MSIX flags will fail, so try to always +specify PCI_IRQ_LEGACY as well. + +Drivers that have different interrupt handlers for MSI/MSI-X and +legacy INTx should chose the right one based on the msi_enabled +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. + +2) MSI avoids DMA/IRQ race conditions. DMA to host memory is guaranteed + to be visible to the host CPU(s) when the MSI is delivered. This + is important for both data coherency and avoiding stale control data. + This guarantee allows the driver to omit MMIO reads to flush + the DMA stream. + +See drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/ or drivers/net/tg3.c for examples +of MSI/MSI-X usage. + + +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) + + +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. + +When the shared IRQ handler is "unhooked", the remaining devices +using the same IRQ line will still need the IRQ enabled. Thus if the +"unhooked" device asserts IRQ line, the system will respond assuming +it was one of the remaining devices asserted the IRQ line. Since none +of the other devices will handle the IRQ, the system will "hang" until +it decides the IRQ isn't going to get handled and masks the IRQ (100,000 +iterations later). Once the shared IRQ is masked, the remaining devices +will stop functioning properly. Not a nice situation. + +This is another reason to use MSI or MSI-X if it's available. +MSI and MSI-X are defined to be exclusive interrupts and thus +are not susceptible to the "screaming interrupt" problem. + + +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 +the IRQ if no one else is using it. + + +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. + +Stopping DMA after stopping the IRQs can avoid races where the +IRQ handler might restart DMA engines. + +While this step sounds obvious and trivial, several "mature" drivers +didn't get this step right in the past. + + +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. + +Then clean up "consistent" buffers which contain the control data. + +See Documentation/DMA-API.txt for details on unmapping interfaces. + + +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. +If this happens, typically the symptom is an Oops (panic) when +the subsystem attempts to call into a driver that has been unloaded. + + +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(). + + +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. + + +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 +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 +and function on that bus. + +If you access fields in the standard portion of the config header, please +use symbolic names of locations and bits declared in <linux/pci.h>. + +If you need to access Extended PCI Capability registers, just call +pci_find_capability() for the particular capability and it will find the +corresponding register block for you. + + +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 + 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. +============================= ================================================ + + +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). + +Always refer to the PCI devices by a pointer to the pci_dev structure. +All PCI layer functions use this identification and it's the only +reasonable one. Don't use bus/slot/function numbers except for very +special purposes -- on systems with multiple primary buses their semantics +can be pretty complex. + +Don't try to turn on Fast Back to Back writes in your driver. All devices +on the bus need to be capable of doing it, so this is something which needs +to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. + + +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 +your driver if they're helpful, or just use plain hex constants. + +The device IDs are arbitrary hex numbers (vendor controlled) and normally used +only in a single location, the pci_device_id table. + +Please DO submit new vendor/device IDs to http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/. +There are mirrors of the pci.ids file at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ +and https://github.com/pciutils/pciids. + + +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() +================= =========================================== + +The alternative is the traditional PCI device driver that walks PCI +device lists. This is still possible but discouraged. + + +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" +needs to be handled. Many drivers (e.g. tg3, acenic, sym53c8xx_2) +already do this. I/O Port space guarantees write transactions reach the PCI +device before the CPU can continue. Writes to MMIO space allow the CPU +to continue before the transaction reaches the PCI device. HW weenies +call this "Write Posting" because the write completion is "posted" to +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:: + + for (i = 8; --i; val >>= 1) { + outb(val & 1, ioport_reg); /* write bit */ + udelay(10); + } + +The same sequence for MMIO space should be:: + + for (i = 8; --i; val >>= 1) { + writeb(val & 1, mmio_reg); /* write bit */ + readb(safe_mmio_reg); /* flush posted write */ + udelay(10); + } + +It is important that "safe_mmio_reg" not have any side effects that +interferes with the correct operation of the device. + +Another case to watch out for is when resetting a PCI device. Use PCI +Configuration space reads to flush the writel(). This will gracefully +handle the PCI master abort on all platforms if the PCI device is +expected to not respond to a readl(). Most x86 platforms will allow +MMIO reads to master abort (a.k.a. "Soft Fail") and return garbage +(e.g. ~0). But many RISC platforms will crash (a.k.a."Hard Fail"). |