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diff --git a/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4f7af841d935 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accelerators/ocxl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +======================================================== +OpenCAPI (Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface) +======================================================== + +OpenCAPI is an interface between processors and accelerators. It aims +at being low-latency and high-bandwidth. The specification is +developed by the `OpenCAPI Consortium <http://opencapi.org/>`_. + +It allows an accelerator (which could be a FPGA, ASICs, ...) to access +the host memory coherently, using virtual addresses. An OpenCAPI +device can also host its own memory, that can be accessed from the +host. + +OpenCAPI is known in linux as 'ocxl', as the open, processor-agnostic +evolution of 'cxl' (the driver for the IBM CAPI interface for +powerpc), which was named that way to avoid confusion with the ISDN +CAPI subsystem. + + +High-level view +=============== + +OpenCAPI defines a Data Link Layer (DL) and Transaction Layer (TL), to +be implemented on top of a physical link. Any processor or device +implementing the DL and TL can start sharing memory. + +:: + + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | | | | + | | | Accelerated | + | Processor | | Function | + | | +--------+ | Unit | +--------+ + | |--| Memory | | (AFU) |--| Memory | + | | +--------+ | | +--------+ + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | | + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | TL | | TLX | + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | | + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | DL | | DLX | + +-----------+ +-------------+ + | | + | PHY | + +---------------------------------------+ + + + +Device discovery +================ + +OpenCAPI relies on a PCI-like configuration space, implemented on the +device. So the host can discover AFUs by querying the config space. + +OpenCAPI devices in Linux are treated like PCI devices (with a few +caveats). The firmware is expected to abstract the hardware as if it +was a PCI link. A lot of the existing PCI infrastructure is reused: +devices are scanned and BARs are assigned during the standard PCI +enumeration. Commands like 'lspci' can therefore be used to see what +devices are available. + +The configuration space defines the AFU(s) that can be found on the +physical adapter, such as its name, how many memory contexts it can +work with, the size of its MMIO areas, ... + + + +MMIO +==== + +OpenCAPI defines two MMIO areas for each AFU: + +* the global MMIO area, with registers pertinent to the whole AFU. +* a per-process MMIO area, which has a fixed size for each context. + + + +AFU interrupts +============== + +OpenCAPI includes the possibility for an AFU to send an interrupt to a +host process. It is done through a 'intrp_req' defined in the +Transaction Layer, specifying a 64-bit object handle which defines the +interrupt. + +The driver allows a process to allocate an interrupt and obtain its +64-bit object handle, that can be passed to the AFU. + + + +char devices +============ + +The driver creates one char device per AFU found on the physical +device. A physical device may have multiple functions and each +function can have multiple AFUs. At the time of this writing though, +it has only been tested with devices exporting only one AFU. + +Char devices can be found in /dev/ocxl/ and are named as: +/dev/ocxl/<AFU name>.<location>.<index> + +where <AFU name> is a max 20-character long name, as found in the +config space of the AFU. +<location> is added by the driver and can help distinguish devices +when a system has more than one instance of the same OpenCAPI device. +<index> is also to help distinguish AFUs in the unlikely case where a +device carries multiple copies of the same AFU. + + + +Sysfs class +=========== + +An ocxl class is added for the devices representing the AFUs. See +/sys/class/ocxl. The layout is described in +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-ocxl + + + +User API +======== + +open +---- + +Based on the AFU definition found in the config space, an AFU may +support working with more than one memory context, in which case the +associated char device may be opened multiple times by different +processes. + + +ioctl +----- + +OCXL_IOCTL_ATTACH: + + Attach the memory context of the calling process to the AFU so that + the AFU can access its memory. + +OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_ALLOC: + + Allocate an AFU interrupt and return an identifier. + +OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_FREE: + + Free a previously allocated AFU interrupt. + +OCXL_IOCTL_IRQ_SET_FD: + + Associate an event fd to an AFU interrupt so that the user process + can be notified when the AFU sends an interrupt. + + +mmap +---- + +A process can mmap the per-process MMIO area for interactions with the +AFU. |