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author | Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> | 2012-11-19 16:02:10 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-01-24 17:25:13 +0100 |
commit | 08261d87f7d1b6253ab3223756625a5c74532293 (patch) | |
tree | c0025a8e4593564bf356f1f185c21a137a96cb8a /Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | |
parent | 51906e779f2b13b38f8153774c4c7163d412ffd9 (diff) | |
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PCI/MSI: Enable multiple MSIs with pci_enable_msi_block_auto()
The new function pci_enable_msi_block_auto() tries to allocate
maximum possible number of MSIs up to the number the device
supports. It generalizes a pattern when pci_enable_msi_block()
is contiguously called until it succeeds or fails.
Opposite to pci_enable_msi_block() which takes the number of
MSIs to allocate as a input parameter,
pci_enable_msi_block_auto() could be used by device drivers to
obtain the number of assigned MSIs and the number of MSIs the
device supports.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3de2419df94a0f95ca1a6f755afc421486455e6.1353324359.git.agordeev@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 37 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 53e6fca146d7..a09178086c30 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -127,15 +127,42 @@ on the number of vectors that can be allocated; pci_enable_msi_block() returns as soon as it finds any constraint that doesn't allow the call to succeed. -4.2.3 pci_disable_msi +4.2.3 pci_enable_msi_block_auto + +int pci_enable_msi_block_auto(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int *count) + +This variation on pci_enable_msi() call allows a device driver to request +the maximum possible number of MSIs. The MSI specification only allows +interrupts to be allocated in powers of two, up to a maximum of 2^5 (32). + +If this function returns a positive number, it indicates that it has +succeeded and the returned value is the number of allocated interrupts. In +this case, the function enables MSI on this device and updates dev->irq to +be the lowest of the new interrupts assigned to it. The other interrupts +assigned to the device are in the range dev->irq to dev->irq + returned +value - 1. + +If this function returns a negative number, it indicates an error and +the driver should not attempt to request any more MSI interrupts for +this device. + +If the device driver needs to know the number of interrupts the device +supports it can pass the pointer count where that number is stored. The +device driver must decide what action to take if pci_enable_msi_block_auto() +succeeds, but returns a value less than the number of interrupts supported. +If the device driver does not need to know the number of interrupts +supported, it can set the pointer count to NULL. + +4.2.4 pci_disable_msi void pci_disable_msi(struct pci_dev *dev) This function should be used to undo the effect of pci_enable_msi() or -pci_enable_msi_block(). Calling it restores dev->irq to the pin-based -interrupt number and frees the previously allocated message signaled -interrupt(s). The interrupt may subsequently be assigned to another -device, so drivers should not cache the value of dev->irq. +pci_enable_msi_block() or pci_enable_msi_block_auto(). Calling it restores +dev->irq to the pin-based interrupt number and frees the previously +allocated message signaled interrupt(s). The interrupt may subsequently be +assigned to another device, so drivers should not cache the value of +dev->irq. Before calling this function, a device driver must always call free_irq() on any interrupt for which it previously called request_irq(). |