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No essential content change. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du --- .../PCI/{MSI-HOWTO.txt => MSI-HOWTO.rst} | 56 ++++++++++++------- Documentation/PCI/index.rst | 1 + 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) rename Documentation/PCI/{MSI-HOWTO.txt => MSI-HOWTO.rst} (89%) diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.rst similarity index 89% rename from Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt rename to Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.rst index 618e13d5e276..33f382632fdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.rst @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ - The MSI Driver Guide HOWTO - Tom L Nguyen tom.l.nguyen@intel.com - 10/03/2003 - Revised Feb 12, 2004 by Martine Silbermann - email: Martine.Silbermann@hp.com - Revised Jun 25, 2004 by Tom L Nguyen - Revised Jul 9, 2008 by Matthew Wilcox - Copyright 2003, 2008 Intel Corporation +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. include:: + +========================== +The MSI Driver Guide HOWTO +========================== + +:Authors: - Tom L Nguyen 10/03/2003 + - Revised Feb 12, 2004 by Martine Silbermann + - Revised Jun 25, 2004 by Tom L Nguyen + - Revised Jul 9, 2008 by Matthew Wilcox + Copyright 2003, 2008 Intel Corporation 1. About this guide +=================== This guide describes the basics of Message Signaled Interrupts (MSIs), the advantages of using MSI over traditional interrupt mechanisms, how @@ -16,6 +21,7 @@ try if a device doesn't support MSIs. 2. What are MSIs? +================= A Message Signaled Interrupt is a write from the device to a special address which causes an interrupt to be received by the CPU. @@ -30,6 +36,7 @@ a time. 3. Why use MSIs? +================ There are three reasons why using MSIs can give an advantage over traditional pin-based interrupts. @@ -62,6 +69,7 @@ in a network card or each port in a storage controller. 4. How to use MSIs +================== PCI devices are initialised to use pin-based interrupts. The device driver has to set up the device to use MSI or MSI-X. Not all machines @@ -69,6 +77,7 @@ support MSIs correctly, and for those machines, the APIs described below will simply fail and the device will continue to use pin-based interrupts. 4.1 Include kernel support for MSIs +----------------------------------- To support MSI or MSI-X, the kernel must be built with the CONFIG_PCI_MSI option enabled. This option is only available on some architectures, @@ -77,13 +86,14 @@ on x86, you must also enable X86_UP_APIC or SMP in order to see the CONFIG_PCI_MSI option. 4.2 Using MSI +------------- Most of the hard work is done for the driver in the PCI layer. The driver simply has to request that the PCI layer set up the MSI capability for this device. To automatically use MSI or MSI-X interrupt vectors, use the following -function: +function:: int pci_alloc_irq_vectors(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int min_vecs, unsigned int max_vecs, unsigned int flags); @@ -101,12 +111,12 @@ any possible kind of interrupt. If the PCI_IRQ_AFFINITY flag is set, pci_alloc_irq_vectors() will spread the interrupts around the available CPUs. To get the Linux IRQ numbers passed to request_irq() and free_irq() and the -vectors, use the following function: +vectors, use the following function:: int pci_irq_vector(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int nr); Any allocated resources should be freed before removing the device using -the following function: +the following function:: void pci_free_irq_vectors(struct pci_dev *dev); @@ -126,7 +136,7 @@ The typical usage of MSI or MSI-X interrupts is to allocate as many vectors as possible, likely up to the limit supported by the device. If nvec is larger than the number supported by the device it will automatically be capped to the supported limit, so there is no need to query the number of -vectors supported beforehand: +vectors supported beforehand:: nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES) if (nvec < 0) @@ -135,7 +145,7 @@ vectors supported beforehand: If a driver is unable or unwilling to deal with a variable number of MSI interrupts it can request a particular number of interrupts by passing that number to pci_alloc_irq_vectors() function as both 'min_vecs' and -'max_vecs' parameters: +'max_vecs' parameters:: ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, nvec, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES); if (ret < 0) @@ -143,14 +153,14 @@ number to pci_alloc_irq_vectors() function as both 'min_vecs' and The most notorious example of the request type described above is enabling the single MSI mode for a device. It could be done by passing two 1s as -'min_vecs' and 'max_vecs': +'min_vecs' and 'max_vecs':: ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES); if (ret < 0) goto out_err; Some devices might not support using legacy line interrupts, in which case -the driver can specify that only MSI or MSI-X is acceptable: +the driver can specify that only MSI or MSI-X is acceptable:: nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_MSI | PCI_IRQ_MSIX); if (nvec < 0) @@ -159,7 +169,7 @@ the driver can specify that only MSI or MSI-X is acceptable: 4.3 Legacy APIs The following old APIs to enable and disable MSI or MSI-X interrupts should -not be used in new code: +not be used in new code:: pci_enable_msi() /* deprecated */ pci_disable_msi() /* deprecated */ @@ -175,8 +185,10 @@ of vectors we might have to revisit that decision and add a pci_nr_irq_vectors() helper that handles MSI and MSI-X transparently. 4.4 Considerations when using MSIs +---------------------------------- 4.4.1 Spinlocks +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most device drivers have a per-device spinlock which is taken in the interrupt handler. With pin-based interrupts or a single MSI, it is not @@ -189,6 +201,7 @@ spin_lock_irqsave() or spin_lock_irq() which disable local interrupts and acquire the lock (see Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst). 4.5 How to tell whether MSI/MSI-X is enabled on a device +-------------------------------------------------------- Using 'lspci -v' (as root) may show some devices with "MSI", "Message Signalled Interrupts" or "MSI-X" capabilities. Each of these capabilities @@ -197,6 +210,7 @@ or "-" (disabled). 5. MSI quirks +============= Several PCI chipsets or devices are known not to support MSIs. The PCI stack provides three ways to disable MSIs: @@ -206,6 +220,7 @@ The PCI stack provides three ways to disable MSIs: 3. on a single device 5.1. Disabling MSIs globally +---------------------------- Some host chipsets simply don't support MSIs properly. If we're lucky, the manufacturer knows this and has indicated it in the ACPI @@ -220,6 +235,7 @@ in your best interests to report the problem to linux-pci@vger.kernel.org including a full 'lspci -v' so we can add the quirks to the kernel. 5.2. Disabling MSIs below a bridge +---------------------------------- Some PCI bridges are not able to route MSIs between busses properly. In this case, MSIs must be disabled on all devices behind the bridge. @@ -230,7 +246,7 @@ as the nVidia nForce and Serverworks HT2000). As with host chipsets, Linux mostly knows about them and automatically enables MSIs if it can. If you have a bridge unknown to Linux, you can enable MSIs in configuration space using whatever method you know works, then -enable MSIs on that bridge by doing: +enable MSIs on that bridge by doing:: echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/$bridge/msi_bus @@ -245,6 +261,7 @@ Again, please notify linux-pci@vger.kernel.org of any bridges that need special handling. 5.3. Disabling MSIs on a single device +-------------------------------------- Some devices are known to have faulty MSI implementations. Usually this is handled in the individual device driver, but occasionally it's necessary @@ -253,6 +270,7 @@ of MSI. While this is a convenient workaround for the driver author, it is not good practice, and should not be emulated. 5.4. Finding why MSIs are disabled on a device +---------------------------------------------- From the above three sections, you can see that there are many reasons why MSIs may not be enabled for a given device. Your first step should @@ -260,8 +278,8 @@ be to examine your dmesg carefully to determine whether MSIs are enabled for your machine. You should also check your .config to be sure you have enabled CONFIG_PCI_MSI. -Then, 'lspci -t' gives the list of bridges above a device. Reading -/sys/bus/pci/devices/*/msi_bus will tell you whether MSIs are enabled (1) +Then, 'lspci -t' gives the list of bridges above a device. Reading +`/sys/bus/pci/devices/*/msi_bus` will tell you whether MSIs are enabled (1) or disabled (0). If 0 is found in any of the msi_bus files belonging to bridges between the PCI root and the device, MSIs are disabled. diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/index.rst b/Documentation/PCI/index.rst index 751cd8f23c62..8ed57b9ecfe4 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/PCI/index.rst @@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ Linux PCI Bus Subsystem pci PCIEBUS-HOWTO pci-iov-howto + MSI-HOWTO -- 2.20.1