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  1. .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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  3. PCI Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) Endpoint Function (EPF) User Guide
  4. ===================================================================
  5. :Author: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <[email protected]>
  6. This document is a guide to help users use pci-epf-ntb function driver
  7. and ntb_hw_epf host driver for NTB functionality. The list of steps to
  8. be followed in the host side and EP side is given below. For the hardware
  9. configuration and internals of NTB using configurable endpoints see
  10. Documentation/PCI/endpoint/pci-ntb-function.rst
  11. Endpoint Device
  12. ===============
  13. Endpoint Controller Devices
  14. ---------------------------
  15. For implementing NTB functionality at least two endpoint controller devices
  16. are required.
  17. To find the list of endpoint controller devices in the system::
  18. # ls /sys/class/pci_epc/
  19. 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
  20. If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
  21. # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/controllers
  22. 2900000.pcie-ep 2910000.pcie-ep
  23. Endpoint Function Drivers
  24. -------------------------
  25. To find the list of endpoint function drivers in the system::
  26. # ls /sys/bus/pci-epf/drivers
  27. pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
  28. If PCI_ENDPOINT_CONFIGFS is enabled::
  29. # ls /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions
  30. pci_epf_ntb pci_epf_ntb
  31. Creating pci-epf-ntb Device
  32. ----------------------------
  33. PCI endpoint function device can be created using the configfs. To create
  34. pci-epf-ntb device, the following commands can be used::
  35. # mount -t configfs none /sys/kernel/config
  36. # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/
  37. # mkdir functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
  38. The "mkdir func1" above creates the pci-epf-ntb function device that will
  39. be probed by pci_epf_ntb driver.
  40. The PCI endpoint framework populates the directory with the following
  41. configurable fields::
  42. # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1
  43. baseclass_code deviceid msi_interrupts pci-epf-ntb.0
  44. progif_code secondary subsys_id vendorid
  45. cache_line_size interrupt_pin msix_interrupts primary
  46. revid subclass_code subsys_vendor_id
  47. The PCI endpoint function driver populates these entries with default values
  48. when the device is bound to the driver. The pci-epf-ntb driver populates
  49. vendorid with 0xffff and interrupt_pin with 0x0001::
  50. # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
  51. 0xffff
  52. # cat functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/interrupt_pin
  53. 0x0001
  54. Configuring pci-epf-ntb Device
  55. -------------------------------
  56. The user can configure the pci-epf-ntb device using its configfs entry. In order
  57. to change the vendorid and the deviceid, the following
  58. commands can be used::
  59. # echo 0x104c > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/vendorid
  60. # echo 0xb00d > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/deviceid
  61. In order to configure NTB specific attributes, a new sub-directory to func1
  62. should be created::
  63. # mkdir functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/
  64. The NTB function driver will populate this directory with various attributes
  65. that can be configured by the user::
  66. # ls functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/
  67. db_count mw1 mw2 mw3 mw4 num_mws
  68. spad_count
  69. A sample configuration for NTB function is given below::
  70. # echo 4 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/db_count
  71. # echo 128 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/spad_count
  72. # echo 2 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/num_mws
  73. # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw1
  74. # echo 0x100000 > functions/pci_epf_ntb/func1/pci_epf_ntb.0/mw2
  75. Binding pci-epf-ntb Device to EP Controller
  76. --------------------------------------------
  77. NTB function device should be attached to two PCI endpoint controllers
  78. connected to the two hosts. Use the 'primary' and 'secondary' entries
  79. inside NTB function device to attach one PCI endpoint controller to
  80. primary interface and the other PCI endpoint controller to the secondary
  81. interface::
  82. # ln -s controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/primary
  83. # ln -s controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/ functions/pci-epf-ntb/func1/secondary
  84. Once the above step is completed, both the PCI endpoint controllers are ready to
  85. establish a link with the host.
  86. Start the Link
  87. --------------
  88. In order for the endpoint device to establish a link with the host, the _start_
  89. field should be populated with '1'. For NTB, both the PCI endpoint controllers
  90. should establish link with the host::
  91. # echo 1 > controllers/2900000.pcie-ep/start
  92. # echo 1 > controllers/2910000.pcie-ep/start
  93. RootComplex Device
  94. ==================
  95. lspci Output
  96. ------------
  97. Note that the devices listed here correspond to the values populated in
  98. "Creating pci-epf-ntb Device" section above::
  99. # lspci
  100. 0000:00:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments Device b00d
  101. 0000:01:00.0 RAM memory: Texas Instruments Device b00d
  102. Using ntb_hw_epf Device
  103. -----------------------
  104. The host side software follows the standard NTB software architecture in Linux.
  105. All the existing client side NTB utilities like NTB Transport Client and NTB
  106. Netdev, NTB Ping Pong Test Client and NTB Tool Test Client can be used with NTB
  107. function device.
  108. For more information on NTB see
  109. :doc:`Non-Transparent Bridge <../../driver-api/ntb>`