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- .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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- PCI Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) Endpoint Function (EPF) User Guide
- ===================================================================
- :Author: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <[email protected]>
- This document is a guide to help users use pci-epf-ntb function driver
- and ntb_hw_epf host driver for NTB functionality. The list of steps to
- be followed in the host side and EP side is given below. For the hardware
- configuration and internals of NTB using configurable endpoints see
- Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-function.rst
- Endpoint Device
- ===============
- Endpoint Controller Devices
- ---------------------------
- For implementing NTB functionality at least two endpoint controller devices
- are required.
- To find the list of endpoint controller devices in the system::
- # ls /sys/class/pci_epc/
- 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
- If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
- # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/controllers
- 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
- Endpoint Function Drivers
- -------------------------
- To find the list of endpoint function drivers in the system::
- # ls /sys/bus/pci-epf/drivers
- pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
- If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
- # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions
- pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
- Creating pci-epf-ntb Device
- ----------------------------
- PCI endpoint function device can be created using the configfs. To create
- pci-epf-ntb device, the following commands can be used::
- # mount -t configfs none /sys/kernel/config
- # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/
- # mkdir functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
- The "mkdir func1" above creates the pci-epf-ntb function device that will
- be probed by pci_epf_ntb driver.
- The PCI endpoint framework populates the directory with the following
- configurable fields::
- # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
- baseclass_code deviceid msi_interrupts pci-epf-ntb.0
- progif_code secondary subsys_id vendorid
- cache_line_size interrupt_pin msix_interrupts primary
- revid subclass_code subsys_vendor_id
- The PCI endpoint function driver populates these entries with default values
- when the device is bound to the driver. The pci-epf-ntb driver populates
- vendorid with 0xffff and interrupt_pin with 0x0001::
- # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
- 0xffff
- # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/interrupt_pin
- 0x0001
- Configuring pci-epf-ntb Device
- -------------------------------
- The user can configure the pci-epf-ntb device using its configfs entry. In order
- to change the vendorid and the deviceid, the following
- commands can be used::
- # echo 0x104c > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
- # echo 0xb00d > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/deviceid
- In order to configure NTB specific attributes, a new sub-directory to func1
- should be created::
- # mkdir functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/
- The NTB function driver will populate this directory with various attributes
- that can be configured by the user::
- # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/
- db_count mw1 mw2 mw3 mw4 num_mws
- spad_count
- A sample configuration for NTB function is given below::
- # echo 4 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/db_count
- # echo 128 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/spad_count
- # echo 2 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/num_mws
- # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw1
- # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw2
- Binding pci-epf-ntb Device to EP Controller
- --------------------------------------------
- NTB function device should be attached to two PCI endpoint controllers
- connected to the two hosts. Use the 'primary' and 'secondary' entries
- inside NTB function device to attach one PCI endpoint controller to
- primary interface and the other PCI endpoint controller to the secondary
- interface::
- # ln -s controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/primary
- # ln -s controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/secondary
- Once the above step is completed, both the PCI endpoint controllers are ready to
- establish a link with the host.
- Start the Link
- --------------
- In order for the endpoint device to establish a link with the host, the _start_
- field should be populated with '1'. For NTB, both the PCI endpoint controllers
- should establish link with the host::
- # echo 1 > controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/start
- # echo 1 > controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/start
- RootComplex Device
- ==================
- lspci Output
- ------------
- Note that the devices listed here correspond to the values populated in
- "Creating pci-epf-ntb Device" section above::
- # lspci
- 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments Device b00d
- 0000:01:00.0 RAM memory: Texas Instruments Device b00d
- Using ntb_hw_epf Device
- -----------------------
- The host side software follows the standard NTB software architecture in Linux.
- All the existing client side NTB utilities like NTB Transport Client and NTB
- Netdev, NTB Ping Pong Test Client and NTB Tool Test Client can be used with NTB
- function device.
- For more information on NTB see
- :doc:`Non-Transparent Bridge <../../driver-api/ntb>`
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