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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/kernel/Documentation/s390/cds.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..480a78ef5 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/s390/cds.txt @@ -0,0 +1,472 @@ +Linux for S/390 and zSeries + +Common Device Support (CDS) +Device Driver I/O Support Routines + +Authors : Ingo Adlung + Cornelia Huck + +Copyright, IBM Corp. 1999-2002 + +Introduction + +This document describes the common device support routines for Linux/390. +Different than other hardware architectures, ESA/390 has defined a unified +I/O access method. This gives relief to the device drivers as they don't +have to deal with different bus types, polling versus interrupt +processing, shared versus non-shared interrupt processing, DMA versus port +I/O (PIO), and other hardware features more. However, this implies that +either every single device driver needs to implement the hardware I/O +attachment functionality itself, or the operating system provides for a +unified method to access the hardware, providing all the functionality that +every single device driver would have to provide itself. + +The document does not intend to explain the ESA/390 hardware architecture in +every detail.This information can be obtained from the ESA/390 Principles of +Operation manual (IBM Form. No. SA22-7201). + +In order to build common device support for ESA/390 I/O interfaces, a +functional layer was introduced that provides generic I/O access methods to +the hardware. + +The common device support layer comprises the I/O support routines defined +below. Some of them implement common Linux device driver interfaces, while +some of them are ESA/390 platform specific. + +Note: +In order to write a driver for S/390, you also need to look into the interface +described in Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. + +Note for porting drivers from 2.4: +The major changes are: +* The functions use a ccw_device instead of an irq (subchannel). +* All drivers must define a ccw_driver (see driver-model.txt) and the associated + functions. +* request_irq() and free_irq() are no longer done by the driver. +* The oper_handler is (kindof) replaced by the probe() and set_online() functions + of the ccw_driver. +* The not_oper_handler is (kindof) replaced by the remove() and set_offline() + functions of the ccw_driver. +* The channel device layer is gone. +* The interrupt handlers must be adapted to use a ccw_device as argument. + Moreover, they don't return a devstat, but an irb. +* Before initiating an io, the options must be set via ccw_device_set_options(). +* Instead of calling read_dev_chars()/read_conf_data(), the driver issues + the channel program and handles the interrupt itself. + +ccw_device_get_ciw() + get commands from extended sense data. + +ccw_device_start() +ccw_device_start_timeout() +ccw_device_start_key() +ccw_device_start_key_timeout() + initiate an I/O request. + +ccw_device_resume() + resume channel program execution. + +ccw_device_halt() + terminate the current I/O request processed on the device. + +do_IRQ() + generic interrupt routine. This function is called by the interrupt entry + routine whenever an I/O interrupt is presented to the system. The do_IRQ() + routine determines the interrupt status and calls the device specific + interrupt handler according to the rules (flags) defined during I/O request + initiation with do_IO(). + +The next chapters describe the functions other than do_IRQ() in more details. +The do_IRQ() interface is not described, as it is called from the Linux/390 +first level interrupt handler only and does not comprise a device driver +callable interface. Instead, the functional description of do_IO() also +describes the input to the device specific interrupt handler. + +Note: All explanations apply also to the 64 bit architecture s390x. + + +Common Device Support (CDS) for Linux/390 Device Drivers + +General Information + +The following chapters describe the I/O related interface routines the +Linux/390 common device support (CDS) provides to allow for device specific +driver implementations on the IBM ESA/390 hardware platform. Those interfaces +intend to provide the functionality required by every device driver +implementation to allow to drive a specific hardware device on the ESA/390 +platform. Some of the interface routines are specific to Linux/390 and some +of them can be found on other Linux platforms implementations too. +Miscellaneous function prototypes, data declarations, and macro definitions +can be found in the architecture specific C header file +linux/arch/s390/include/asm/irq.h. + +Overview of CDS interface concepts + +Different to other hardware platforms, the ESA/390 architecture doesn't define +interrupt lines managed by a specific interrupt controller and bus systems +that may or may not allow for shared interrupts, DMA processing, etc.. Instead, +the ESA/390 architecture has implemented a so called channel subsystem, that +provides a unified view of the devices physically attached to the systems. +Though the ESA/390 hardware platform knows about a huge variety of different +peripheral attachments like disk devices (aka. DASDs), tapes, communication +controllers, etc. they can all be accessed by a well defined access method and +they are presenting I/O completion a unified way : I/O interruptions. Every +single device is uniquely identified to the system by a so called subchannel, +where the ESA/390 architecture allows for 64k devices be attached. + +Linux, however, was first built on the Intel PC architecture, with its two +cascaded 8259 programmable interrupt controllers (PICs), that allow for a +maximum of 15 different interrupt lines. All devices attached to such a system +share those 15 interrupt levels. Devices attached to the ISA bus system must +not share interrupt levels (aka. IRQs), as the ISA bus bases on edge triggered +interrupts. MCA, EISA, PCI and other bus systems base on level triggered +interrupts, and therewith allow for shared IRQs. However, if multiple devices +present their hardware status by the same (shared) IRQ, the operating system +has to call every single device driver registered on this IRQ in order to +determine the device driver owning the device that raised the interrupt. + +Up to kernel 2.4, Linux/390 used to provide interfaces via the IRQ (subchannel). +For internal use of the common I/O layer, these are still there. However, +device drivers should use the new calling interface via the ccw_device only. + +During its startup the Linux/390 system checks for peripheral devices. Each +of those devices is uniquely defined by a so called subchannel by the ESA/390 +channel subsystem. While the subchannel numbers are system generated, each +subchannel also takes a user defined attribute, the so called device number. +Both subchannel number and device number cannot exceed 65535. During sysfs +initialisation, the information about control unit type and device types that +imply specific I/O commands (channel command words - CCWs) in order to operate +the device are gathered. Device drivers can retrieve this set of hardware +information during their initialization step to recognize the devices they +support using the information saved in the struct ccw_device given to them. +This methods implies that Linux/390 doesn't require to probe for free (not +armed) interrupt request lines (IRQs) to drive its devices with. Where +applicable, the device drivers can use issue the READ DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS +ccw to retrieve device characteristics in its online routine. + +In order to allow for easy I/O initiation the CDS layer provides a +ccw_device_start() interface that takes a device specific channel program (one +or more CCWs) as input sets up the required architecture specific control blocks +and initiates an I/O request on behalf of the device driver. The +ccw_device_start() routine allows to specify whether it expects the CDS layer +to notify the device driver for every interrupt it observes, or with final status +only. See ccw_device_start() for more details. A device driver must never issue +ESA/390 I/O commands itself, but must use the Linux/390 CDS interfaces instead. + +For long running I/O request to be canceled, the CDS layer provides the +ccw_device_halt() function. Some devices require to initially issue a HALT +SUBCHANNEL (HSCH) command without having pending I/O requests. This function is +also covered by ccw_device_halt(). + + +get_ciw() - get command information word + +This call enables a device driver to get information about supported commands +from the extended SenseID data. + +struct ciw * +ccw_device_get_ciw(struct ccw_device *cdev, __u32 cmd); + +cdev - The ccw_device for which the command is to be retrieved. +cmd - The command type to be retrieved. + +ccw_device_get_ciw() returns: +NULL - No extended data available, invalid device or command not found. +!NULL - The command requested. + + +ccw_device_start() - Initiate I/O Request + +The ccw_device_start() routines is the I/O request front-end processor. All +device driver I/O requests must be issued using this routine. A device driver +must not issue ESA/390 I/O commands itself. Instead the ccw_device_start() +routine provides all interfaces required to drive arbitrary devices. + +This description also covers the status information passed to the device +driver's interrupt handler as this is related to the rules (flags) defined +with the associated I/O request when calling ccw_device_start(). + +int ccw_device_start(struct ccw_device *cdev, + struct ccw1 *cpa, + unsigned long intparm, + __u8 lpm, + unsigned long flags); +int ccw_device_start_timeout(struct ccw_device *cdev, + struct ccw1 *cpa, + unsigned long intparm, + __u8 lpm, + unsigned long flags, + int expires); +int ccw_device_start_key(struct ccw_device *cdev, + struct ccw1 *cpa, + unsigned long intparm, + __u8 lpm, + __u8 key, + unsigned long flags); +int ccw_device_start_key_timeout(struct ccw_device *cdev, + struct ccw1 *cpa, + unsigned long intparm, + __u8 lpm, + __u8 key, + unsigned long flags, + int expires); + +cdev : ccw_device the I/O is destined for +cpa : logical start address of channel program +user_intparm : user specific interrupt information; will be presented + back to the device driver's interrupt handler. Allows a + device driver to associate the interrupt with a + particular I/O request. +lpm : defines the channel path to be used for a specific I/O + request. A value of 0 will make cio use the opm. +key : the storage key to use for the I/O (useful for operating on a + storage with a storage key != default key) +flag : defines the action to be performed for I/O processing +expires : timeout value in jiffies. The common I/O layer will terminate + the running program after this and call the interrupt handler + with ERR_PTR(-ETIMEDOUT) as irb. + +Possible flag values are : + +DOIO_ALLOW_SUSPEND - channel program may become suspended +DOIO_DENY_PREFETCH - don't allow for CCW prefetch; usually + this implies the channel program might + become modified +DOIO_SUPPRESS_INTER - don't call the handler on intermediate status + +The cpa parameter points to the first format 1 CCW of a channel program : + +struct ccw1 { + __u8 cmd_code;/* command code */ + __u8 flags; /* flags, like IDA addressing, etc. */ + __u16 count; /* byte count */ + __u32 cda; /* data address */ +} __attribute__ ((packed,aligned(8))); + +with the following CCW flags values defined : + +CCW_FLAG_DC - data chaining +CCW_FLAG_CC - command chaining +CCW_FLAG_SLI - suppress incorrect length +CCW_FLAG_SKIP - skip +CCW_FLAG_PCI - PCI +CCW_FLAG_IDA - indirect addressing +CCW_FLAG_SUSPEND - suspend + + +Via ccw_device_set_options(), the device driver may specify the following +options for the device: + +DOIO_EARLY_NOTIFICATION - allow for early interrupt notification +DOIO_REPORT_ALL - report all interrupt conditions + + +The ccw_device_start() function returns : + + 0 - successful completion or request successfully initiated +-EBUSY - The device is currently processing a previous I/O request, or there is + a status pending at the device. +-ENODEV - cdev is invalid, the device is not operational or the ccw_device is + not online. + +When the I/O request completes, the CDS first level interrupt handler will +accumulate the status in a struct irb and then call the device interrupt handler. +The intparm field will contain the value the device driver has associated with a +particular I/O request. If a pending device status was recognized, +intparm will be set to 0 (zero). This may happen during I/O initiation or delayed +by an alert status notification. In any case this status is not related to the +current (last) I/O request. In case of a delayed status notification no special +interrupt will be presented to indicate I/O completion as the I/O request was +never started, even though ccw_device_start() returned with successful completion. + +The irb may contain an error value, and the device driver should check for this +first: + +-ETIMEDOUT: the common I/O layer terminated the request after the specified + timeout value +-EIO: the common I/O layer terminated the request due to an error state + +If the concurrent sense flag in the extended status word (esw) in the irb is +set, the field erw.scnt in the esw describes the number of device specific +sense bytes available in the extended control word irb->scsw.ecw[]. No device +sensing by the device driver itself is required. + +The device interrupt handler can use the following definitions to investigate +the primary unit check source coded in sense byte 0 : + +SNS0_CMD_REJECT 0x80 +SNS0_INTERVENTION_REQ 0x40 +SNS0_BUS_OUT_CHECK 0x20 +SNS0_EQUIPMENT_CHECK 0x10 +SNS0_DATA_CHECK 0x08 +SNS0_OVERRUN 0x04 +SNS0_INCOMPL_DOMAIN 0x01 + +Depending on the device status, multiple of those values may be set together. +Please refer to the device specific documentation for details. + +The irb->scsw.cstat field provides the (accumulated) subchannel status : + +SCHN_STAT_PCI - program controlled interrupt +SCHN_STAT_INCORR_LEN - incorrect length +SCHN_STAT_PROG_CHECK - program check +SCHN_STAT_PROT_CHECK - protection check +SCHN_STAT_CHN_DATA_CHK - channel data check +SCHN_STAT_CHN_CTRL_CHK - channel control check +SCHN_STAT_INTF_CTRL_CHK - interface control check +SCHN_STAT_CHAIN_CHECK - chaining check + +The irb->scsw.dstat field provides the (accumulated) device status : + +DEV_STAT_ATTENTION - attention +DEV_STAT_STAT_MOD - status modifier +DEV_STAT_CU_END - control unit end +DEV_STAT_BUSY - busy +DEV_STAT_CHN_END - channel end +DEV_STAT_DEV_END - device end +DEV_STAT_UNIT_CHECK - unit check +DEV_STAT_UNIT_EXCEP - unit exception + +Please see the ESA/390 Principles of Operation manual for details on the +individual flag meanings. + +Usage Notes : + +ccw_device_start() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. + +The device driver is allowed to issue the next ccw_device_start() call from +within its interrupt handler already. It is not required to schedule a +bottom-half, unless a non deterministically long running error recovery procedure +or similar needs to be scheduled. During I/O processing the Linux/390 generic +I/O device driver support has already obtained the IRQ lock, i.e. the handler +must not try to obtain it again when calling ccw_device_start() or we end in a +deadlock situation! + +If a device driver relies on an I/O request to be completed prior to start the +next it can reduce I/O processing overhead by chaining a NoOp I/O command +CCW_CMD_NOOP to the end of the submitted CCW chain. This will force Channel-End +and Device-End status to be presented together, with a single interrupt. +However, this should be used with care as it implies the channel will remain +busy, not being able to process I/O requests for other devices on the same +channel. Therefore e.g. read commands should never use this technique, as the +result will be presented by a single interrupt anyway. + +In order to minimize I/O overhead, a device driver should use the +DOIO_REPORT_ALL only if the device can report intermediate interrupt +information prior to device-end the device driver urgently relies on. In this +case all I/O interruptions are presented to the device driver until final +status is recognized. + +If a device is able to recover from asynchronously presented I/O errors, it can +perform overlapping I/O using the DOIO_EARLY_NOTIFICATION flag. While some +devices always report channel-end and device-end together, with a single +interrupt, others present primary status (channel-end) when the channel is +ready for the next I/O request and secondary status (device-end) when the data +transmission has been completed at the device. + +Above flag allows to exploit this feature, e.g. for communication devices that +can handle lost data on the network to allow for enhanced I/O processing. + +Unless the channel subsystem at any time presents a secondary status interrupt, +exploiting this feature will cause only primary status interrupts to be +presented to the device driver while overlapping I/O is performed. When a +secondary status without error (alert status) is presented, this indicates +successful completion for all overlapping ccw_device_start() requests that have +been issued since the last secondary (final) status. + +Channel programs that intend to set the suspend flag on a channel command word +(CCW) must start the I/O operation with the DOIO_ALLOW_SUSPEND option or the +suspend flag will cause a channel program check. At the time the channel program +becomes suspended an intermediate interrupt will be generated by the channel +subsystem. + +ccw_device_resume() - Resume Channel Program Execution + +If a device driver chooses to suspend the current channel program execution by +setting the CCW suspend flag on a particular CCW, the channel program execution +is suspended. In order to resume channel program execution the CIO layer +provides the ccw_device_resume() routine. + +int ccw_device_resume(struct ccw_device *cdev); + +cdev - ccw_device the resume operation is requested for + +The ccw_device_resume() function returns: + + 0 - suspended channel program is resumed +-EBUSY - status pending +-ENODEV - cdev invalid or not-operational subchannel +-EINVAL - resume function not applicable +-ENOTCONN - there is no I/O request pending for completion + +Usage Notes: +Please have a look at the ccw_device_start() usage notes for more details on +suspended channel programs. + +ccw_device_halt() - Halt I/O Request Processing + +Sometimes a device driver might need a possibility to stop the processing of +a long-running channel program or the device might require to initially issue +a halt subchannel (HSCH) I/O command. For those purposes the ccw_device_halt() +command is provided. + +ccw_device_halt() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. + +int ccw_device_halt(struct ccw_device *cdev, + unsigned long intparm); + +cdev : ccw_device the halt operation is requested for +intparm : interruption parameter; value is only used if no I/O + is outstanding, otherwise the intparm associated with + the I/O request is returned + +The ccw_device_halt() function returns : + + 0 - request successfully initiated +-EBUSY - the device is currently busy, or status pending. +-ENODEV - cdev invalid. +-EINVAL - The device is not operational or the ccw device is not online. + +Usage Notes : + +A device driver may write a never-ending channel program by writing a channel +program that at its end loops back to its beginning by means of a transfer in +channel (TIC) command (CCW_CMD_TIC). Usually this is performed by network +device drivers by setting the PCI CCW flag (CCW_FLAG_PCI). Once this CCW is +executed a program controlled interrupt (PCI) is generated. The device driver +can then perform an appropriate action. Prior to interrupt of an outstanding +read to a network device (with or without PCI flag) a ccw_device_halt() +is required to end the pending operation. + +ccw_device_clear() - Terminage I/O Request Processing + +In order to terminate all I/O processing at the subchannel, the clear subchannel +(CSCH) command is used. It can be issued via ccw_device_clear(). + +ccw_device_clear() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. + +int ccw_device_clear(struct ccw_device *cdev, unsigned long intparm); + +cdev: ccw_device the clear operation is requested for +intparm: interruption parameter (see ccw_device_halt()) + +The ccw_device_clear() function returns: + + 0 - request successfully initiated +-ENODEV - cdev invalid +-EINVAL - The device is not operational or the ccw device is not online. + +Miscellaneous Support Routines + +This chapter describes various routines to be used in a Linux/390 device +driver programming environment. + +get_ccwdev_lock() + +Get the address of the device specific lock. This is then used in +spin_lock() / spin_unlock() calls. + + +__u8 ccw_device_get_path_mask(struct ccw_device *cdev); + +Get the mask of the path currently available for cdev. |