From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I To: Bjorn Helgaas , Joao Pinto , , , , , , Subject: [PATCH v3 04/23] Documentation: PCI: Guide to use pci endpoint configfs Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:27:15 +0530 Message-ID: <1489046254-19919-5-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <1489046254-19919-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> References: <1489046254-19919-1-git-send-email-kishon@ti.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: hch@infradead.org, nsekhar@ti.com, kishon@ti.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+bjorn=helgaas.com@lists.infradead.org List-ID: Add Documentation to help users use pci endpoint to configure pci endpoint function and to bind the endpoint function with endpoint controller. Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I --- Documentation/PCI/00-INDEX | 2 + Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/00-INDEX b/Documentation/PCI/00-INDEX index ba950b2..f84a23c 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/PCI/00-INDEX @@ -14,3 +14,5 @@ pcieaer-howto.txt - the PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver Guide HOWTO endpoint/pci-endpoint.txt - guide to add endpoint controller driver and endpoint function driver. +endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt + - guide to use configfs to configure the pci endpoint function. diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt b/Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b2a828 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint-cfs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ + CONFIGURING PCI ENDPOINT USING CONFIGFS + Kishon Vijay Abraham I + +The PCI Endpoint Core exposes configfs entry (pci_ep) in order to configure the +PCI endpoint function and in order to bind the endpoint function +with the endpoint controller. (For introducing other mechanisms to +configure the PCI Endpoint Function refer [1]). + +*) Mounting configfs + +The PCI Endpoint Core layer creates pci_ep directory in the mounted configfs +directory. configfs can be mounted using the following command. + + mount -t configfs none /sys/kernel/config + +*) Directory Structure + +The pci_ep configfs has two directories at its root: controllers and +functions. Every EPC device present in the system will have an entry in +the *controllers* directory and and every EPF driver present in the system +will have an entry in the *functions* directory. + +/sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/ + .. controllers/ + .. functions/ + +*) Creating EPF Device + +Every registered EPF driver will be listed in controllers directory. The +entries corresponding to EPF driver will be created by the EPF core. + +/sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/ + .. / + ... / + ... / + .. / + ... / + ... / + +In order to create a of the type probed by , the +user has to create a directory inside . + +Every directory consists of the following entries that can be +used to configure the standard configuration header of the endpoint function. +(These entries are created by the framework when any new is +created) + + .. / + ... / + ... vendorid + ... deviceid + ... revid + ... progif_code + ... subclass_code + ... baseclass_code + ... cache_line_size + ... subsys_vendor_id + ... subsys_id + ... interrupt_pin + +*) EPC Device + +Every registered EPC device will be listed in controllers directory. The +entries corresponding to EPC device will be created by the EPC core. + +/sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/controllers/ + .. / + ... / + ... / + ... start + .. / + ... / + ... / + ... start + +The directory will have a list of symbolic links to +. These symbolic links should be created by the user to +represent the functions present in the endpoint device. + +The directory will also have a *start* field. Once +"1" is written to this field, the endpoint device will be ready to +establish the link with the host. This is usually done after +all the EPF devices are created and linked with the EPC device. + + + | controllers/ + | / + | + | start + | functions/ + | / + | / + | vendorid + | deviceid + | revid + | progif_code + | subclass_code + | baseclass_code + | cache_line_size + | subsys_vendor_id + | subsys_id + | interrupt_pin + | function + +[1] -> Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-endpoint.txt -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel