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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c7abd234 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/device-io.rst @@ -0,0 +1,521 @@ +.. Copyright 2001 Matthew Wilcox +.. +.. This documentation is free software; you can redistribute +.. it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public +.. License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either +.. version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later +.. version. + +=============================== +Bus-Independent Device Accesses +=============================== + +:Author: Matthew Wilcox +:Author: Alan Cox + +Introduction +============ + +Linux provides an API which abstracts performing IO across all busses +and devices, allowing device drivers to be written independently of bus +type. + +Memory Mapped IO +================ + +Getting Access to the Device +---------------------------- + +The most widely supported form of IO is memory mapped IO. That is, a +part of the CPU's address space is interpreted not as accesses to +memory, but as accesses to a device. Some architectures define devices +to be at a fixed address, but most have some method of discovering +devices. The PCI bus walk is a good example of such a scheme. This +document does not cover how to receive such an address, but assumes you +are starting with one. Physical addresses are of type unsigned long. + +This address should not be used directly. Instead, to get an address +suitable for passing to the accessor functions described below, you +should call ioremap(). An address suitable for accessing +the device will be returned to you. + +After you've finished using the device (say, in your module's exit +routine), call iounmap() in order to return the address +space to the kernel. Most architectures allocate new address space each +time you call ioremap(), and they can run out unless you +call iounmap(). + +Accessing the device +-------------------- + +The part of the interface most used by drivers is reading and writing +memory-mapped registers on the device. Linux provides interfaces to read +and write 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit quantities. Due to a +historical accident, these are named byte, word, long and quad accesses. +Both read and write accesses are supported; there is no prefetch support +at this time. + +The functions are named readb(), readw(), readl(), readq(), +readb_relaxed(), readw_relaxed(), readl_relaxed(), readq_relaxed(), +writeb(), writew(), writel() and writeq(). + +Some devices (such as framebuffers) would like to use larger transfers than +8 bytes at a time. For these devices, the memcpy_toio(), +memcpy_fromio() and memset_io() functions are +provided. Do not use memset or memcpy on IO addresses; they are not +guaranteed to copy data in order. + +The read and write functions are defined to be ordered. That is the +compiler is not permitted to reorder the I/O sequence. When the ordering +can be compiler optimised, you can use __readb() and friends to +indicate the relaxed ordering. Use this with care. + +While the basic functions are defined to be synchronous with respect to +each other and ordered with respect to each other the busses the devices +sit on may themselves have asynchronicity. In particular many authors +are burned by the fact that PCI bus writes are posted asynchronously. A +driver author must issue a read from the same device to ensure that +writes have occurred in the specific cases the author cares. This kind +of property cannot be hidden from driver writers in the API. In some +cases, the read used to flush the device may be expected to fail (if the +card is resetting, for example). In that case, the read should be done +from config space, which is guaranteed to soft-fail if the card doesn't +respond. + +The following is an example of flushing a write to a device when the +driver would like to ensure the write's effects are visible prior to +continuing execution:: + + static inline void + qla1280_disable_intrs(struct scsi_qla_host *ha) + { + struct device_reg *reg; + + reg = ha->iobase; + /* disable risc and host interrupts */ + WRT_REG_WORD(®->ictrl, 0); + /* + * The following read will ensure that the above write + * has been received by the device before we return from this + * function. + */ + RD_REG_WORD(®->ictrl); + ha->flags.ints_enabled = 0; + } + +PCI ordering rules also guarantee that PIO read responses arrive after any +outstanding DMA writes from that bus, since for some devices the result of +a readb() call may signal to the driver that a DMA transaction is +complete. In many cases, however, the driver may want to indicate that the +next readb() call has no relation to any previous DMA writes +performed by the device. The driver can use readb_relaxed() for +these cases, although only some platforms will honor the relaxed +semantics. Using the relaxed read functions will provide significant +performance benefits on platforms that support it. The qla2xxx driver +provides examples of how to use readX_relaxed(). In many cases, a majority +of the driver's readX() calls can safely be converted to readX_relaxed() +calls, since only a few will indicate or depend on DMA completion. + +Port Space Accesses +=================== + +Port Space Explained +-------------------- + +Another form of IO commonly supported is Port Space. This is a range of +addresses separate to the normal memory address space. Access to these +addresses is generally not as fast as accesses to the memory mapped +addresses, and it also has a potentially smaller address space. + +Unlike memory mapped IO, no preparation is required to access port +space. + +Accessing Port Space +-------------------- + +Accesses to this space are provided through a set of functions which +allow 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit accesses; also known as byte, word and +long. These functions are inb(), inw(), +inl(), outb(), outw() and +outl(). + +Some variants are provided for these functions. Some devices require +that accesses to their ports are slowed down. This functionality is +provided by appending a ``_p`` to the end of the function. +There are also equivalents to memcpy. The ins() and +outs() functions copy bytes, words or longs to the given +port. + +__iomem pointer tokens +====================== + +The data type for an MMIO address is an ``__iomem`` qualified pointer, such as +``void __iomem *reg``. On most architectures it is a regular pointer that +points to a virtual memory address and can be offset or dereferenced, but in +portable code, it must only be passed from and to functions that explicitly +operated on an ``__iomem`` token, in particular the ioremap() and +readl()/writel() functions. The 'sparse' semantic code checker can be used to +verify that this is done correctly. + +While on most architectures, ioremap() creates a page table entry for an +uncached virtual address pointing to the physical MMIO address, some +architectures require special instructions for MMIO, and the ``__iomem`` pointer +just encodes the physical address or an offsettable cookie that is interpreted +by readl()/writel(). + +Differences between I/O access functions +======================================== + +readq(), readl(), readw(), readb(), writeq(), writel(), writew(), writeb() + + These are the most generic accessors, providing serialization against other + MMIO accesses and DMA accesses as well as fixed endianness for accessing + little-endian PCI devices and on-chip peripherals. Portable device drivers + should generally use these for any access to ``__iomem`` pointers. + + Note that posted writes are not strictly ordered against a spinlock, see + Documentation/driver-api/io_ordering.rst. + +readq_relaxed(), readl_relaxed(), readw_relaxed(), readb_relaxed(), +writeq_relaxed(), writel_relaxed(), writew_relaxed(), writeb_relaxed() + + On architectures that require an expensive barrier for serializing against + DMA, these "relaxed" versions of the MMIO accessors only serialize against + each other, but contain a less expensive barrier operation. A device driver + might use these in a particularly performance sensitive fast path, with a + comment that explains why the usage in a specific location is safe without + the extra barriers. + + See memory-barriers.txt for a more detailed discussion on the precise ordering + guarantees of the non-relaxed and relaxed versions. + +ioread64(), ioread32(), ioread16(), ioread8(), +iowrite64(), iowrite32(), iowrite16(), iowrite8() + + These are an alternative to the normal readl()/writel() functions, with almost + identical behavior, but they can also operate on ``__iomem`` tokens returned + for mapping PCI I/O space with pci_iomap() or ioport_map(). On architectures + that require special instructions for I/O port access, this adds a small + overhead for an indirect function call implemented in lib/iomap.c, while on + other architectures, these are simply aliases. + +ioread64be(), ioread32be(), ioread16be() +iowrite64be(), iowrite32be(), iowrite16be() + + These behave in the same way as the ioread32()/iowrite32() family, but with + reversed byte order, for accessing devices with big-endian MMIO registers. + Device drivers that can operate on either big-endian or little-endian + registers may have to implement a custom wrapper function that picks one or + the other depending on which device was found. + + Note: On some architectures, the normal readl()/writel() functions + traditionally assume that devices are the same endianness as the CPU, while + using a hardware byte-reverse on the PCI bus when running a big-endian kernel. + Drivers that use readl()/writel() this way are generally not portable, but + tend to be limited to a particular SoC. + +hi_lo_readq(), lo_hi_readq(), hi_lo_readq_relaxed(), lo_hi_readq_relaxed(), +ioread64_lo_hi(), ioread64_hi_lo(), ioread64be_lo_hi(), ioread64be_hi_lo(), +hi_lo_writeq(), lo_hi_writeq(), hi_lo_writeq_relaxed(), lo_hi_writeq_relaxed(), +iowrite64_lo_hi(), iowrite64_hi_lo(), iowrite64be_lo_hi(), iowrite64be_hi_lo() + + Some device drivers have 64-bit registers that cannot be accessed atomically + on 32-bit architectures but allow two consecutive 32-bit accesses instead. + Since it depends on the particular device which of the two halves has to be + accessed first, a helper is provided for each combination of 64-bit accessors + with either low/high or high/low word ordering. A device driver must include + either <linux/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h> or <linux/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h> to + get the function definitions along with helpers that redirect the normal + readq()/writeq() to them on architectures that do not provide 64-bit access + natively. + +__raw_readq(), __raw_readl(), __raw_readw(), __raw_readb(), +__raw_writeq(), __raw_writel(), __raw_writew(), __raw_writeb() + + These are low-level MMIO accessors without barriers or byteorder changes and + architecture specific behavior. Accesses are usually atomic in the sense that + a four-byte __raw_readl() does not get split into individual byte loads, but + multiple consecutive accesses can be combined on the bus. In portable code, it + is only safe to use these to access memory behind a device bus but not MMIO + registers, as there are no ordering guarantees with regard to other MMIO + accesses or even spinlocks. The byte order is generally the same as for normal + memory, so unlike the other functions, these can be used to copy data between + kernel memory and device memory. + +inl(), inw(), inb(), outl(), outw(), outb() + + PCI I/O port resources traditionally require separate helpers as they are + implemented using special instructions on the x86 architecture. On most other + architectures, these are mapped to readl()/writel() style accessors + internally, usually pointing to a fixed area in virtual memory. Instead of an + ``__iomem`` pointer, the address is a 32-bit integer token to identify a port + number. PCI requires I/O port access to be non-posted, meaning that an outb() + must complete before the following code executes, while a normal writeb() may + still be in progress. On architectures that correctly implement this, I/O port + access is therefore ordered against spinlocks. Many non-x86 PCI host bridge + implementations and CPU architectures however fail to implement non-posted I/O + space on PCI, so they can end up being posted on such hardware. + + In some architectures, the I/O port number space has a 1:1 mapping to + ``__iomem`` pointers, but this is not recommended and device drivers should + not rely on that for portability. Similarly, an I/O port number as described + in a PCI base address register may not correspond to the port number as seen + by a device driver. Portable drivers need to read the port number for the + resource provided by the kernel. + + There are no direct 64-bit I/O port accessors, but pci_iomap() in combination + with ioread64/iowrite64 can be used instead. + +inl_p(), inw_p(), inb_p(), outl_p(), outw_p(), outb_p() + + On ISA devices that require specific timing, the _p versions of the I/O + accessors add a small delay. On architectures that do not have ISA buses, + these are aliases to the normal inb/outb helpers. + +readsq, readsl, readsw, readsb +writesq, writesl, writesw, writesb +ioread64_rep, ioread32_rep, ioread16_rep, ioread8_rep +iowrite64_rep, iowrite32_rep, iowrite16_rep, iowrite8_rep +insl, insw, insb, outsl, outsw, outsb + + These are helpers that access the same address multiple times, usually to copy + data between kernel memory byte stream and a FIFO buffer. Unlike the normal + MMIO accessors, these do not perform a byteswap on big-endian kernels, so the + first byte in the FIFO register corresponds to the first byte in the memory + buffer regardless of the architecture. + +Device memory mapping modes +=========================== + +Some architectures support multiple modes for mapping device memory. +ioremap_*() variants provide a common abstraction around these +architecture-specific modes, with a shared set of semantics. + +ioremap() is the most common mapping type, and is applicable to typical device +memory (e.g. I/O registers). Other modes can offer weaker or stronger +guarantees, if supported by the architecture. From most to least common, they +are as follows: + +ioremap() +--------- + +The default mode, suitable for most memory-mapped devices, e.g. control +registers. Memory mapped using ioremap() has the following characteristics: + +* Uncached - CPU-side caches are bypassed, and all reads and writes are handled + directly by the device +* No speculative operations - the CPU may not issue a read or write to this + memory, unless the instruction that does so has been reached in committed + program flow. +* No reordering - The CPU may not reorder accesses to this memory mapping with + respect to each other. On some architectures, this relies on barriers in + readl_relaxed()/writel_relaxed(). +* No repetition - The CPU may not issue multiple reads or writes for a single + program instruction. +* No write-combining - Each I/O operation results in one discrete read or write + being issued to the device, and multiple writes are not combined into larger + writes. This may or may not be enforced when using __raw I/O accessors or + pointer dereferences. +* Non-executable - The CPU is not allowed to speculate instruction execution + from this memory (it probably goes without saying, but you're also not + allowed to jump into device memory). + +On many platforms and buses (e.g. PCI), writes issued through ioremap() +mappings are posted, which means that the CPU does not wait for the write to +actually reach the target device before retiring the write instruction. + +On many platforms, I/O accesses must be aligned with respect to the access +size; failure to do so will result in an exception or unpredictable results. + +ioremap_wc() +------------ + +Maps I/O memory as normal memory with write combining. Unlike ioremap(), + +* The CPU may speculatively issue reads from the device that the program + didn't actually execute, and may choose to basically read whatever it wants. +* The CPU may reorder operations as long as the result is consistent from the + program's point of view. +* The CPU may write to the same location multiple times, even when the program + issued a single write. +* The CPU may combine several writes into a single larger write. + +This mode is typically used for video framebuffers, where it can increase +performance of writes. It can also be used for other blocks of memory in +devices (e.g. buffers or shared memory), but care must be taken as accesses are +not guaranteed to be ordered with respect to normal ioremap() MMIO register +accesses without explicit barriers. + +On a PCI bus, it is usually safe to use ioremap_wc() on MMIO areas marked as +``IORESOURCE_PREFETCH``, but it may not be used on those without the flag. +For on-chip devices, there is no corresponding flag, but a driver can use +ioremap_wc() on a device that is known to be safe. + +ioremap_wt() +------------ + +Maps I/O memory as normal memory with write-through caching. Like ioremap_wc(), +but also, + +* The CPU may cache writes issued to and reads from the device, and serve reads + from that cache. + +This mode is sometimes used for video framebuffers, where drivers still expect +writes to reach the device in a timely manner (and not be stuck in the CPU +cache), but reads may be served from the cache for efficiency. However, it is +rarely useful these days, as framebuffer drivers usually perform writes only, +for which ioremap_wc() is more efficient (as it doesn't needlessly trash the +cache). Most drivers should not use this. + +ioremap_np() +------------ + +Like ioremap(), but explicitly requests non-posted write semantics. On some +architectures and buses, ioremap() mappings have posted write semantics, which +means that writes can appear to "complete" from the point of view of the +CPU before the written data actually arrives at the target device. Writes are +still ordered with respect to other writes and reads from the same device, but +due to the posted write semantics, this is not the case with respect to other +devices. ioremap_np() explicitly requests non-posted semantics, which means +that the write instruction will not appear to complete until the device has +received (and to some platform-specific extent acknowledged) the written data. + +This mapping mode primarily exists to cater for platforms with bus fabrics that +require this particular mapping mode to work correctly. These platforms set the +``IORESOURCE_MEM_NONPOSTED`` flag for a resource that requires ioremap_np() +semantics and portable drivers should use an abstraction that automatically +selects it where appropriate (see the `Higher-level ioremap abstractions`_ +section below). + +The bare ioremap_np() is only available on some architectures; on others, it +always returns NULL. Drivers should not normally use it, unless they are +platform-specific or they derive benefit from non-posted writes where +supported, and can fall back to ioremap() otherwise. The normal approach to +ensure posted write completion is to do a dummy read after a write as +explained in `Accessing the device`_, which works with ioremap() on all +platforms. + +ioremap_np() should never be used for PCI drivers. PCI memory space writes are +always posted, even on architectures that otherwise implement ioremap_np(). +Using ioremap_np() for PCI BARs will at best result in posted write semantics, +and at worst result in complete breakage. + +Note that non-posted write semantics are orthogonal to CPU-side ordering +guarantees. A CPU may still choose to issue other reads or writes before a +non-posted write instruction retires. See the previous section on MMIO access +functions for details on the CPU side of things. + +ioremap_uc() +------------ + +ioremap_uc() behaves like ioremap() except that on the x86 architecture without +'PAT' mode, it marks memory as uncached even when the MTRR has designated +it as cacheable, see Documentation/arch/x86/pat.rst. + +Portable drivers should avoid the use of ioremap_uc(). + +ioremap_cache() +--------------- + +ioremap_cache() effectively maps I/O memory as normal RAM. CPU write-back +caches can be used, and the CPU is free to treat the device as if it were a +block of RAM. This should never be used for device memory which has side +effects of any kind, or which does not return the data previously written on +read. + +It should also not be used for actual RAM, as the returned pointer is an +``__iomem`` token. memremap() can be used for mapping normal RAM that is outside +of the linear kernel memory area to a regular pointer. + +Portable drivers should avoid the use of ioremap_cache(). + +Architecture example +-------------------- + +Here is how the above modes map to memory attribute settings on the ARM64 +architecture: + ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| API | Memory region type and cacheability | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap_np() | Device-nGnRnE | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap() | Device-nGnRE | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap_uc() | (not implemented) | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap_wc() | Normal-Non Cacheable | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap_wt() | (not implemented; fallback to ioremap) | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| ioremap_cache() | Normal-Write-Back Cacheable | ++------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ + +Higher-level ioremap abstractions +================================= + +Instead of using the above raw ioremap() modes, drivers are encouraged to use +higher-level APIs. These APIs may implement platform-specific logic to +automatically choose an appropriate ioremap mode on any given bus, allowing for +a platform-agnostic driver to work on those platforms without any special +cases. At the time of this writing, the following ioremap() wrappers have such +logic: + +devm_ioremap_resource() + + Can automatically select ioremap_np() over ioremap() according to platform + requirements, if the ``IORESOURCE_MEM_NONPOSTED`` flag is set on the struct + resource. Uses devres to automatically unmap the resource when the driver + probe() function fails or a device in unbound from its driver. + + Documented in Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst. + +of_address_to_resource() + + Automatically sets the ``IORESOURCE_MEM_NONPOSTED`` flag for platforms that + require non-posted writes for certain buses (see the nonposted-mmio and + posted-mmio device tree properties). + +of_iomap() + + Maps the resource described in a ``reg`` property in the device tree, doing + all required translations. Automatically selects ioremap_np() according to + platform requirements, as above. + +pci_ioremap_bar(), pci_ioremap_wc_bar() + + Maps the resource described in a PCI base address without having to extract + the physical address first. + +pci_iomap(), pci_iomap_wc() + + Like pci_ioremap_bar()/pci_ioremap_bar(), but also works on I/O space when + used together with ioread32()/iowrite32() and similar accessors + +pcim_iomap() + + Like pci_iomap(), but uses devres to automatically unmap the resource when + the driver probe() function fails or a device in unbound from its driver + + Documented in Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst. + +Not using these wrappers may make drivers unusable on certain platforms with +stricter rules for mapping I/O memory. + +Generalizing Access to System and I/O Memory +============================================ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/iosys-map.h + :doc: overview + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/iosys-map.h + :internal: + +Public Functions Provided +========================= + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/include/asm/io.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: lib/pci_iomap.c + :export: |