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| The PCI Express Port Bus Driver Guide HOWTO |
| =========================================== |
| |
| :Author: Tom L Nguyen tom.l.nguyen@intel.com 11/03/2004 |
| :Copyright: |copy| 2004 Intel Corporation |
| |
| About this guide |
| ================ |
| |
| This guide describes the basics of the PCI Express Port Bus driver |
| and provides information on how to enable the service drivers to |
| register/unregister with the PCI Express Port Bus Driver. |
| |
| |
| What is the PCI Express Port Bus Driver |
| ======================================= |
| |
| A PCI Express Port is a logical PCI-PCI Bridge structure. There |
| are two types of PCI Express Port: the Root Port and the Switch |
| Port. The Root Port originates a PCI Express link from a PCI Express |
| Root Complex and the Switch Port connects PCI Express links to |
| internal logical PCI buses. The Switch Port, which has its secondary |
| bus representing the switch's internal routing logic, is called the |
| switch's Upstream Port. The switch's Downstream Port is bridging from |
| switch's internal routing bus to a bus representing the downstream |
| PCI Express link from the PCI Express Switch. |
| |
| A PCI Express Port can provide up to four distinct functions, |
| referred to in this document as services, depending on its port type. |
| PCI Express Port's services include native hotplug support (HP), |
| power management event support (PME), advanced error reporting |
| support (AER), and virtual channel support (VC). These services may |
| be handled by a single complex driver or be individually distributed |
| and handled by corresponding service drivers. |
| |
| Why use the PCI Express Port Bus Driver? |
| ======================================== |
| |
| In existing Linux kernels, the Linux Device Driver Model allows a |
| physical device to be handled by only a single driver. The PCI |
| Express Port is a PCI-PCI Bridge device with multiple distinct |
| services. To maintain a clean and simple solution each service |
| may have its own software service driver. In this case several |
| service drivers will compete for a single PCI-PCI Bridge device. |
| For example, if the PCI Express Root Port native hotplug service |
| driver is loaded first, it claims a PCI-PCI Bridge Root Port. The |
| kernel therefore does not load other service drivers for that Root |
| Port. In other words, it is impossible to have multiple service |
| drivers load and run on a PCI-PCI Bridge device simultaneously |
| using the current driver model. |
| |
| To enable multiple service drivers running simultaneously requires |
| having a PCI Express Port Bus driver, which manages all populated |
| PCI Express Ports and distributes all provided service requests |
| to the corresponding service drivers as required. Some key |
| advantages of using the PCI Express Port Bus driver are listed below: |
| |
| - Allow multiple service drivers to run simultaneously on |
| a PCI-PCI Bridge Port device. |
| |
| - Allow service drivers implemented in an independent |
| staged approach. |
| |
| - Allow one service driver to run on multiple PCI-PCI Bridge |
| Port devices. |
| |
| - Manage and distribute resources of a PCI-PCI Bridge Port |
| device to requested service drivers. |
| |
| Configuring the PCI Express Port Bus Driver vs. Service Drivers |
| =============================================================== |
| |
| Including the PCI Express Port Bus Driver Support into the Kernel |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Including the PCI Express Port Bus driver depends on whether the PCI |
| Express support is included in the kernel config. The kernel will |
| automatically include the PCI Express Port Bus driver as a kernel |
| driver when the PCI Express support is enabled in the kernel. |
| |
| Enabling Service Driver Support |
| ------------------------------- |
| |
| PCI device drivers are implemented based on Linux Device Driver Model. |
| All service drivers are PCI device drivers. As discussed above, it is |
| impossible to load any service driver once the kernel has loaded the |
| PCI Express Port Bus Driver. To meet the PCI Express Port Bus Driver |
| Model requires some minimal changes on existing service drivers that |
| imposes no impact on the functionality of existing service drivers. |
| |
| A service driver is required to use the two APIs shown below to |
| register its service with the PCI Express Port Bus driver (see |
| section 5.2.1 & 5.2.2). It is important that a service driver |
| initializes the pcie_port_service_driver data structure, included in |
| header file /include/linux/pcieport_if.h, before calling these APIs. |
| Failure to do so will result an identity mismatch, which prevents |
| the PCI Express Port Bus driver from loading a service driver. |
| |
| pcie_port_service_register |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| :: |
| |
| int pcie_port_service_register(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new) |
| |
| This API replaces the Linux Driver Model's pci_register_driver API. A |
| service driver should always calls pcie_port_service_register at |
| module init. Note that after service driver being loaded, calls |
| such as pci_enable_device(dev) and pci_set_master(dev) are no longer |
| necessary since these calls are executed by the PCI Port Bus driver. |
| |
| pcie_port_service_unregister |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| :: |
| |
| void pcie_port_service_unregister(struct pcie_port_service_driver *new) |
| |
| pcie_port_service_unregister replaces the Linux Driver Model's |
| pci_unregister_driver. It's always called by service driver when a |
| module exits. |
| |
| Sample Code |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| Below is sample service driver code to initialize the port service |
| driver data structure. |
| :: |
| |
| static struct pcie_port_service_id service_id[] = { { |
| .vendor = PCI_ANY_ID, |
| .device = PCI_ANY_ID, |
| .port_type = PCIE_RC_PORT, |
| .service_type = PCIE_PORT_SERVICE_AER, |
| }, { /* end: all zeroes */ } |
| }; |
| |
| static struct pcie_port_service_driver root_aerdrv = { |
| .name = (char *)device_name, |
| .id_table = service_id, |
| |
| .probe = aerdrv_load, |
| .remove = aerdrv_unload, |
| |
| .suspend = aerdrv_suspend, |
| .resume = aerdrv_resume, |
| }; |
| |
| Below is a sample code for registering/unregistering a service |
| driver. |
| :: |
| |
| static int __init aerdrv_service_init(void) |
| { |
| int retval = 0; |
| |
| retval = pcie_port_service_register(&root_aerdrv); |
| if (!retval) { |
| /* |
| * FIX ME |
| */ |
| } |
| return retval; |
| } |
| |
| static void __exit aerdrv_service_exit(void) |
| { |
| pcie_port_service_unregister(&root_aerdrv); |
| } |
| |
| module_init(aerdrv_service_init); |
| module_exit(aerdrv_service_exit); |
| |
| Possible Resource Conflicts |
| =========================== |
| |
| Since all service drivers of a PCI-PCI Bridge Port device are |
| allowed to run simultaneously, below lists a few of possible resource |
| conflicts with proposed solutions. |
| |
| MSI and MSI-X Vector Resource |
| ----------------------------- |
| |
| Once MSI or MSI-X interrupts are enabled on a device, it stays in this |
| mode until they are disabled again. Since service drivers of the same |
| PCI-PCI Bridge port share the same physical device, if an individual |
| service driver enables or disables MSI/MSI-X mode it may result |
| unpredictable behavior. |
| |
| To avoid this situation all service drivers are not permitted to |
| switch interrupt mode on its device. The PCI Express Port Bus driver |
| is responsible for determining the interrupt mode and this should be |
| transparent to service drivers. Service drivers need to know only |
| the vector IRQ assigned to the field irq of struct pcie_device, which |
| is passed in when the PCI Express Port Bus driver probes each service |
| driver. Service drivers should use (struct pcie_device*)dev->irq to |
| call request_irq/free_irq. In addition, the interrupt mode is stored |
| in the field interrupt_mode of struct pcie_device. |
| |
| PCI Memory/IO Mapped Regions |
| ---------------------------- |
| |
| Service drivers for PCI Express Power Management (PME), Advanced |
| Error Reporting (AER), Hot-Plug (HP) and Virtual Channel (VC) access |
| PCI configuration space on the PCI Express port. In all cases the |
| registers accessed are independent of each other. This patch assumes |
| that all service drivers will be well behaved and not overwrite |
| other service driver's configuration settings. |
| |
| PCI Config Registers |
| -------------------- |
| |
| Each service driver runs its PCI config operations on its own |
| capability structure except the PCI Express capability structure, |
| that is shared between many drivers including the service drivers. |
| RMW Capability accessors (pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word(), |
| pcie_capability_set_word(), and pcie_capability_clear_word()) protect |
| a selected set of PCI Express Capability Registers (Link Control |
| Register and Root Control Register). Any change to those registers |
| should be performed using RMW accessors to avoid problems due to |
| concurrent updates. For the up-to-date list of protected registers, |
| see pcie_capability_clear_and_set_word(). |