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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-05-12 13:57:50 +0200 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2017-05-16 13:44:12 +0200 |
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Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7060da136095 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +=================================== +Writing s390 channel device drivers +=================================== + +:Author: Cornelia Huck + +Introduction +============ + +This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that +drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces +for interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with +the common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common +I/O layer. + +The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated +with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this +architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of +Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832. + +While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the +channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods +(like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document. + +Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source under +Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. + +The ccw bus +=========== + +The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to a +s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic +command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains +so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O +subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for +channel-attached devices, however, will never interact with the +subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus, the ccw +device. + +I/O functions for channel-attached devices +------------------------------------------ + +Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use +by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on the +hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles of +Operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h + :internal: + +ccw devices +----------- + +Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus. +Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which +provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers. + +The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a ccw +device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions or +strange side effects may happen. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c + :export: + +The channel-measurement facility +-------------------------------- + +The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect measurement +data which is made available by the channel subsystem for each channel +attached device. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/cmb.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c + :export: + +The ccwgroup bus +================ + +The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user. +Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several ccw +devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The ccwgroup bus +provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which contains those ccw +devices as slave devices and can be associated with the netdevice. + +ccw group devices +----------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwgroup.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c + :export: + +Generic interfaces +================== + +Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily +have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are +indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer. One +example is the support for adapter interrupts. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/airq.c + :export: |