From: "Marc Marí" <markmb@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Drew <drjones@redhat.com>, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com>,
"Kevin O'Connor" <kevin@koconnor.net>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>, Laszlo <lersek@redhat.com>,
"Marc Marí" <markmb@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface documentation
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:03:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1438858987-29566-1-git-send-email-markmb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438858816-29385-1-git-send-email-markmb@redhat.com>
Add fw_cfg DMA interface specfication in the fw_cfg documentation.
Signed-off-by: Marc Marí <markmb@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
index 953fb64..c880eec 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/fw-cfg.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,41 @@ The guest kernel is not expected to use these registers (although it is
certainly allowed to); the device tree bindings are documented here because
this is where device tree bindings reside in general.
+Starting from revision 2, a DMA interface has also been added. This can be used
+through a write-only, 64-bit wide address register.
+
+In this register, a pointer to a FWCfgDmaAccess structure can be written, in
+big endian mode. This is the format of the FWCfgDmaAccess structure:
+
+typedef struct FWCfgDmaAccess {
+ uint64_t address;
+ uint32_t length;
+ uint32_t control;
+} FWCfgDmaAccess;
+
+Once the address to this structure has been written, an DMA operation is
+started. If the "control" field has value 2, a read operation will be performed.
+"length" bytes for the current selector and offset will be mapped into the
+address specified by the "address" field.
+
+If the field "address" has value 0, the read is considered a skip, and
+the data is not copied anywhere, but the offset is still incremented.
+
+To check result, read the control register:
+ error bit set -> something went wrong.
+ all bits cleared -> transfer finished successfully.
+ otherwise -> transfer still in progress (doesn't happen
+ today due to implementation not being async,
+ but may in the future).
+
+Target address goes up and transfer length goes down as the transfer
+happens, so after a successful transfer the length register is zero
+and the address register points right after the memory block written.
+
+If a partial transfer happened before an error occured the address and
+length registers indicate how much data has been transfered
+successfully.
+
Required properties:
- compatible: "qemu,fw-cfg-mmio".
@@ -56,6 +91,7 @@ Required properties:
- reg: the MMIO region used by the device.
* Bytes 0x0 to 0x7 cover the data register.
* Bytes 0x8 to 0x9 cover the selector register.
+ * From revision 2: Bytes 0xa to 0x11 cover the DMA address register.
* Further registers may be appended to the region in case of future interface
revisions / feature bits.
--
2.4.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-06 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-06 11:00 QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface Marc Marí
2015-08-06 11:03 ` Marc Marí [this message]
2015-08-06 12:12 ` [PATCH] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface documentation Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-06 12:22 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-08-06 12:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-06 14:08 ` Andrew Jones
2015-08-06 14:19 ` Marc Marí
2015-08-06 14:28 ` Andrew Jones
2015-08-06 14:55 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-08-06 15:13 ` Marc Marí
2015-08-06 21:08 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-08-06 12:27 ` QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-06 12:37 ` Marc Marí
2015-08-06 12:40 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-08-06 15:30 ` Kevin O'Connor
2015-08-06 15:53 ` Marc Marí
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