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4 PCI Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) Endpoint Function (EPF) User Guide
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7 :Author: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
9 This document is a guide to help users use pci-epf-ntb function driver
10 and ntb_hw_epf host driver for NTB functionality. The list of steps to
11 be followed in the host side and EP side is given below. For the hardware
12 configuration and internals of NTB using configurable endpoints see
13 Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-function.rst
18 Endpoint Controller Devices
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21 For implementing NTB functionality at least two endpoint controller devices
24 To find the list of endpoint controller devices in the system::
26 # ls /sys/class/pci_epc/
27 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
29 If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
31 # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/controllers
32 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
35 Endpoint Function Drivers
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38 To find the list of endpoint function drivers in the system::
40 # ls /sys/bus/pci-epf/drivers
41 pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
43 If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
45 # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions
46 pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
49 Creating pci-epf-ntb Device
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52 PCI endpoint function device can be created using the configfs. To create
53 pci-epf-ntb device, the following commands can be used::
55 # mount -t configfs none /sys/kernel/config
56 # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/
57 # mkdir functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
59 The "mkdir func1" above creates the pci-epf-ntb function device that will
60 be probed by pci_epf_ntb driver.
62 The PCI endpoint framework populates the directory with the following
65 # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
66 baseclass_code deviceid msi_interrupts pci-epf-ntb.0
67 progif_code secondary subsys_id vendorid
68 cache_line_size interrupt_pin msix_interrupts primary
69 revid subclass_code subsys_vendor_id
71 The PCI endpoint function driver populates these entries with default values
72 when the device is bound to the driver. The pci-epf-ntb driver populates
73 vendorid with 0xffff and interrupt_pin with 0x0001::
75 # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
77 # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/interrupt_pin
81 Configuring pci-epf-ntb Device
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84 The user can configure the pci-epf-ntb device using its configfs entry. In order
85 to change the vendorid and the deviceid, the following
86 commands can be used::
88 # echo 0x104c > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
89 # echo 0xb00d > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/deviceid
91 The PCI endpoint framework also automatically creates a sub-directory in the
92 function attribute directory. This sub-directory has the same name as the name
93 of the function device and is populated with the following NTB specific
94 attributes that can be configured by the user::
96 # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/
97 db_count mw1 mw2 mw3 mw4 num_mws
100 A sample configuration for NTB function is given below::
102 # echo 4 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/db_count
103 # echo 128 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/spad_count
104 # echo 2 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/num_mws
105 # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw1
106 # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw2
108 Binding pci-epf-ntb Device to EP Controller
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111 NTB function device should be attached to two PCI endpoint controllers
112 connected to the two hosts. Use the 'primary' and 'secondary' entries
113 inside NTB function device to attach one PCI endpoint controller to
114 primary interface and the other PCI endpoint controller to the secondary
117 # ln -s controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/primary
118 # ln -s controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/secondary
120 Once the above step is completed, both the PCI endpoint controllers are ready to
121 establish a link with the host.
127 In order for the endpoint device to establish a link with the host, the _start_
128 field should be populated with '1'. For NTB, both the PCI endpoint controllers
129 should establish link with the host::
131 # echo 1 > controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/start
132 # echo 1 > controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/start
141 Note that the devices listed here correspond to the values populated in
142 "Creating pci-epf-ntb Device" section above::
145 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments Device b00d
146 0000:01:00.0 RAM memory: Texas Instruments Device b00d
149 Using ntb_hw_epf Device
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152 The host side software follows the standard NTB software architecture in Linux.
153 All the existing client side NTB utilities like NTB Transport Client and NTB
154 Netdev, NTB Ping Pong Test Client and NTB Tool Test Client can be used with NTB
157 For more information on NTB see
158 :doc:`Non-Transparent Bridge <../../driver-api/ntb>`