uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
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Michael S. Tsirkin
maintainerRFC PATCH 1/1 uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
Resending with corrected addresses. Sorry about the churn.
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I got annoyed by the fact that we don't support shared interrupts with PCI in assigned devides, so here's a draft patch to add that support in kernel through uio.
I intend to send this to lkml, but meanwhile I'd appreciate some early feedback/flames from people on the list.
Thanks!
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This adds a generic uio driver that can bind to any PCI device. First user will be virtualization where a qemu userspace process needs to give guest OS access to the device.
Interrupts are handled using the Interrupt Disable bit in the PCI command register and Interrupt Status bit in the PCI status register. All devices compliant to PCI 2.3 (circa 2002) and all compliant PCI Express devices should support these bits. Driver detects this support, and won't bind to devices which do not support the Interrupt Disable Bit in the command register.
It's expected that MSI/MSI-X support will be added to this driver in the future, to interface with virtualization irqfd/eventfd infrastructure. Another area to examine, and of interest to virtualization, is iommu.
--- drivers/uio/Kconfig | 10 ++ drivers/uio/Makefile | 1 + drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c | 202 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/pci_regs.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 214 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c
drivers/uio/Kconfig +10 -0
@@ -89,4 +89,14 @@ config UIO_SERCOS3 If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_sercos3. +config UIO_PCI_GENERIC + tristate "Generic driver for PCI 2.3 and PCI Express cards" + depends on PCI + default n + help + Generic driver that you can bind, dynamically, to any + PCI 2.3 compliant and PCI Express card. It is useful, + primarily, for virtualization scenarios. + If you compile this as a module, it will be called uio_pci_generic. + endif
drivers/uio/Makefile +1 -0
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_PDRV_GENIRQ) += uio_pdrv_genirq.o obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_SMX) += uio_smx.o obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_AEC) += uio_aec.o obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_SERCOS3) += uio_sercos3.o +obj-$(CONFIG_UIO_PCI_GENERIC) += uio_pci_generic.o
drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c new file +202 -0
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include/linux/pci_regs.h +1 -0
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@#define PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE 0x400/* INTx Emulation Disable */ #define PCI_STATUS 0x06/* 16 bits */ +#define PCI_STATUS_INTERRUPT 0x08/* Interrupt status */ #define PCI_STATUS_CAP_LIST 0x10/* Support Capability List */ #define PCI_STATUS_66MHZ 0x20/* Support 66 Mhz PCI 2.1 bus */ #define PCI_STATUS_UDF 0x40/* Support User Definable Features [obsolete] */
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