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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mei/mei-client-bus.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mei/mei-client-bus.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f242b3f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mei/mei-client-bus.rst @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============================================== +Intel(R) Management Engine (ME) Client bus API +============================================== + + +Rationale +========= + +The MEI character device is useful for dedicated applications to send and receive +data to the many FW appliance found in Intel's ME from the user space. +However, for some of the ME functionalities it makes sense to leverage existing software +stack and expose them through existing kernel subsystems. + +In order to plug seamlessly into the kernel device driver model we add kernel virtual +bus abstraction on top of the MEI driver. This allows implementing Linux kernel drivers +for the various MEI features as a stand alone entities found in their respective subsystem. +Existing device drivers can even potentially be re-used by adding an MEI CL bus layer to +the existing code. + + +MEI CL bus API +============== + +A driver implementation for an MEI Client is very similar to any other existing bus +based device drivers. The driver registers itself as an MEI CL bus driver through +the ``struct mei_cl_driver`` structure defined in :file:`include/linux/mei_cl_bus.c` + +.. code-block:: C + + struct mei_cl_driver { + struct device_driver driver; + const char *name; + + const struct mei_cl_device_id *id_table; + + int (*probe)(struct mei_cl_device *dev, const struct mei_cl_id *id); + int (*remove)(struct mei_cl_device *dev); + }; + + + +The mei_cl_device_id structure defined in :file:`include/linux/mod_devicetable.h` allows a +driver to bind itself against a device name. + +.. code-block:: C + + struct mei_cl_device_id { + char name[MEI_CL_NAME_SIZE]; + uuid_le uuid; + __u8 version; + kernel_ulong_t driver_info; + }; + +To actually register a driver on the ME Client bus one must call the :c:func:`mei_cl_add_driver` +API. This is typically called at module initialization time. + +Once the driver is registered and bound to the device, a driver will typically +try to do some I/O on this bus and this should be done through the :c:func:`mei_cl_send` +and :c:func:`mei_cl_recv` functions. More detailed information is in :ref:`api` section. + +In order for a driver to be notified about pending traffic or event, the driver +should register a callback via :c:func:`mei_cl_devev_register_rx_cb` and +:c:func:`mei_cldev_register_notify_cb` function respectively. + +.. _api: + +API: +---- +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/misc/mei/bus.c + :export: drivers/misc/mei/bus.c + + + +Example +======= + +As a theoretical example let's pretend the ME comes with a "contact" NFC IP. +The driver init and exit routines for this device would look like: + +.. code-block:: C + + #define CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME "contact" + + static struct mei_cl_device_id contact_mei_cl_tbl[] = { + { CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME, }, + + /* required last entry */ + { } + }; + MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(mei_cl, contact_mei_cl_tbl); + + static struct mei_cl_driver contact_driver = { + .id_table = contact_mei_tbl, + .name = CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME, + + .probe = contact_probe, + .remove = contact_remove, + }; + + static int contact_init(void) + { + int r; + + r = mei_cl_driver_register(&contact_driver); + if (r) { + pr_err(CONTACT_DRIVER_NAME ": driver registration failed\n"); + return r; + } + + return 0; + } + + static void __exit contact_exit(void) + { + mei_cl_driver_unregister(&contact_driver); + } + + module_init(contact_init); + module_exit(contact_exit); + +And the driver's simplified probe routine would look like that: + +.. code-block:: C + + int contact_probe(struct mei_cl_device *dev, struct mei_cl_device_id *id) + { + [...] + mei_cldev_enable(dev); + + mei_cldev_register_rx_cb(dev, contact_rx_cb); + + return 0; + } + +In the probe routine the driver first enable the MEI device and then registers +an rx handler which is as close as it can get to registering a threaded IRQ handler. +The handler implementation will typically call :c:func:`mei_cldev_recv` and then +process received data. + +.. code-block:: C + + #define MAX_PAYLOAD 128 + #define HDR_SIZE 4 + static void conntact_rx_cb(struct mei_cl_device *cldev) + { + struct contact *c = mei_cldev_get_drvdata(cldev); + unsigned char payload[MAX_PAYLOAD]; + ssize_t payload_sz; + + payload_sz = mei_cldev_recv(cldev, payload, MAX_PAYLOAD) + if (reply_size < HDR_SIZE) { + return; + } + + c->process_rx(payload); + + } + +MEI Client Bus Drivers +====================== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + hdcp + nfc |