1 Accessing PCI device resources through sysfs
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4 sysfs, usually mounted at /sys, provides access to PCI resources on platforms
5 that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this:
7 /sys/devices/pci0000:17
22 | |-- subsystem_device
23 | |-- subsystem_vendor
27 The topmost element describes the PCI domain and bus number. In this case,
28 the domain number is 0000 and the bus number is 17 (both values are in hex).
29 This bus contains a single function device in slot 0. The domain and bus
30 numbers are reproduced for convenience. Under the device directory are several
31 files, each with their own function.
35 class PCI class (ascii, ro)
36 config PCI config space (binary, rw)
37 device PCI device (ascii, ro)
38 enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
39 irq IRQ number (ascii, ro)
40 local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
41 remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
42 resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
43 resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw[1])
44 resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
45 revision PCI revision (ascii, ro)
46 rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
47 subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
48 subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro)
49 vendor PCI vendor (ascii, ro)
52 rw - file is readable and writable
54 mmap - file is mmapable
55 ascii - file contains ascii text
56 binary - file contains binary data
57 cpumask - file contains a cpumask type
59 [1] rw for RESOURCE_IO (I/O port) regions only
61 The read only files are informational, writes to them will be ignored, with
62 the exception of the 'rom' file. Writable files can be used to perform
63 actions on the device (e.g. changing config space, detaching a device).
64 mmapable files are available via an mmap of the file at offset 0 and can be
65 used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms
66 don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return
67 value from any attempted mmap. The most notable of these are I/O port
68 resources, which also provide read/write access.
70 The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device
71 has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is
72 echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease
73 the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation
76 The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's
77 ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications
78 should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read
79 call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note
80 that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data successfully.
81 In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the
82 'enable' file, documented above.
84 The 'remove' file is used to remove the PCI device, by writing a non-zero
85 integer to the file. This does not involve any kind of hot-plug functionality,
86 e.g. powering off the device. The device is removed from the kernel's list of
87 PCI devices, the sysfs directory for it is removed, and the device will be
88 removed from any drivers attached to it. Removal of PCI root buses is
91 Accessing legacy resources through sysfs
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94 Legacy I/O port and ISA memory resources are also provided in sysfs if the
95 underlying platform supports them. They're located in the PCI class hierarchy,
98 /sys/class/pci_bus/0000:17/
99 |-- bridge -> ../../../devices/pci0000:17
104 The legacy_io file is a read/write file that can be used by applications to
105 do legacy port I/O. The application should open the file, seek to the desired
106 port (e.g. 0x3e8) and do a read or a write of 1, 2 or 4 bytes. The legacy_mem
107 file should be mmapped with an offset corresponding to the memory offset
108 desired, e.g. 0xa0000 for the VGA frame buffer. The application can then
109 simply dereference the returned pointer (after checking for errors of course)
110 to access legacy memory space.
112 Supporting PCI access on new platforms
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115 In order to support PCI resource mapping as described above, Linux platform
116 code must define HAVE_PCI_MMAP and provide a pci_mmap_page_range function.
117 Platforms are free to only support subsets of the mmap functionality, but
118 useful return codes should be provided.
120 Legacy resources are protected by the HAVE_PCI_LEGACY define. Platforms
121 wishing to support legacy functionality should define it and provide
122 pci_legacy_read, pci_legacy_write and pci_mmap_legacy_page_range functions.