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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 deviceshave different requirements (erm, “features”), the result is the PCI supportin the Linux kernel is not as trivial as one would wish. This short papertries to introduce all potential driver authors to Linux APIs forPCI 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:https://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.

1.1. 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 discoversa 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 tothe PCI layer and supports online insertion/removal of devices [thussupporting hot-pluggable PCI, CardBus, and Express-Card in a single driver].pci_register_driver() call requires passing in a table of functionpointers and thus dictates the high level structure of a driver.

Once the driver knows about a PCI device and takes ownership, thedriver 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 ofthe PCI functions described below are defined as inline functions eithercompletely empty or just returning an appropriate error codes to avoidlots of ifdefs in the drivers.

1.2. pci_register_driver() call¶

PCI device drivers call pci_register_driver() during theirinitialization with a pointer to a structure describing the driver(structpci_driver):

struct pci_driver¶

PCI driver structure

Definition

Members

node: List of driver structures.
name: Driver name.
id_table: Pointer to table of device IDs the driver isinterested in. Most drivers should export thistable using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci,…).
probe: This probing function gets called (during executionof pci_register_driver() for already existingdevices or later if a new device gets inserted) forall PCI devices which match the ID table and are not“owned” by the other drivers yet. This function getspassed a “struct pci_dev *” for each device whoseentry in the ID table matches the device. The probefunction returns zero when the driver chooses totake “ownership” of the device or an error code(negative number) otherwise.The probe function always gets called from processcontext, so it can sleep.
remove: The remove() function gets called whenever a devicebeing handled by this driver is removed (either duringderegistration of the driver or when it’s manuallypulled out of a hot-pluggable slot).The remove function always gets called from processcontext, so it can sleep.
suspend: Put device into low power state.
resume: Wake device from low power state.(Please see PCI Power Management for descriptionsof PCI Power Management and the related functions.)
shutdown: Hook into reboot_notifier_list (kernel/sys.c).Intended to stop any idling DMA operations.Useful for enabling wake-on-lan (NIC) or changingthe power state of a device before reboot.e.g. drivers/net/e100.c.
sriov_configure: Optional driver callback to allow configuration ofnumber of VFs to enable via sysfs “sriov_numvfs” file.
err_handler: See PCI Error Recovery
groups: Sysfs attribute groups.
driver: Driver model structure.
dynids: List of dynamically added device IDs.

The ID table is an array of structpci_device_id entries ending with anall-zero entry. Definitions with static const are generally preferred.

struct pci_device_id¶

PCI device ID structure

Definition

Members

vendor: Vendor ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID)
device: Device ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID)
subvendor: Subsystem vendor ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID)
subdevice: Subsystem device ID to match (or PCI_ANY_ID)
class: Device class, subclass, and “interface” to match.See Appendix D of the PCI Local Bus Spec orinclude/linux/pci_ids.h for a full list of classes.Most drivers do not need to specify class/class_maskas vendor/device is normally sufficient.
class_mask: Limit which sub-fields of the class field are compared.See drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/ for example of usage.
driver_data: Data private to the driver.Most drivers don’t need to use driver_data field.Best practice is to use driver_data as an indexinto a static list of equivalent device types,instead of using it as a pointer.

Most drivers only need PCI_DEVICE() or PCI_DEVICE_CLASS() to set upa pci_device_id table.

New PCI IDs may be added to a device driver pci_ids table at runtimeas shown below:

All fields are passed in as hexadecimal values (no leading 0x).The vendor and dev

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