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authorKirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>2016-11-17 02:16:33 +0530
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docs: Sample driver to demonstrate how to use Mediated device framework.
The Sample driver creates mdev device that simulates serial port over PCI card. Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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@@ -288,8 +288,109 @@ these callbacks are supported in the TYPE1 IOMMU module. To enable them for
other IOMMU backend modules, such as PPC64 sPAPR module, they need to provide
these two callback functions.
+Using the Sample Code
+=====================
+
+mtty.c in samples/vfio-mdev/ directory is a sample driver program to
+demonstrate how to use the mediated device framework.
+
+The sample driver creates an mdev device that simulates a serial port over a PCI
+card.
+
+1. Build and load the mtty.ko module.
+
+ This step creates a dummy device, /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+
+ Files in this device directory in sysfs are similar to the following:
+
+ # tree /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+ /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/
+ |-- mdev_supported_types
+ | |-- mtty-1
+ | | |-- available_instances
+ | | |-- create
+ | | |-- device_api
+ | | |-- devices
+ | | `-- name
+ | `-- mtty-2
+ | |-- available_instances
+ | |-- create
+ | |-- device_api
+ | |-- devices
+ | `-- name
+ |-- mtty_dev
+ | `-- sample_mtty_dev
+ |-- power
+ | |-- autosuspend_delay_ms
+ | |-- control
+ | |-- runtime_active_time
+ | |-- runtime_status
+ | `-- runtime_suspended_time
+ |-- subsystem -> ../../../../class/mtty
+ `-- uevent
+
+2. Create a mediated device by using the dummy device that you created in the
+ previous step.
+
+ # echo "83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001" > \
+ /sys/devices/virtual/mtty/mtty/mdev_supported_types/mtty-2/create
+
+3. Add parameters to qemu-kvm.
+
+ -device vfio-pci,\
+ sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001
+
+4. Boot the VM.
+
+ In the Linux guest VM, with no hardware on the host, the device appears
+ as follows:
+
+ # lspci -s 00:05.0 -xxvv
+ 00:05.0 Serial controller: Device 4348:3253 (rev 10) (prog-if 02 [16550])
+ Subsystem: Device 4348:3253
+ Physical Slot: 5
+ Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
+ Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
+ Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
+ <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
+ Region 0: I/O ports at c150 [size=8]
+ Region 1: I/O ports at c158 [size=8]
+ Kernel driver in use: serial
+ 00: 48 43 53 32 01 00 00 02 10 02 00 07 00 00 00 00
+ 10: 51 c1 00 00 59 c1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
+ 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 48 43 53 32
+ 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
+
+ In the Linux guest VM, dmesg output for the device is as follows:
+
+ serial 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, high) -> IRQ
+10
+ 0000:00:05.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0xc150 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
+ 0000:00:05.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0xc158 (irq = 10) is a 16550A
+
+
+5. In the Linux guest VM, check the serial ports.
+
+ # setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
+ /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
+ /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc150, IRQ: 10
+ /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xc158, IRQ: 10
+
+6. Using a minicom or any terminal enulation program, open port /dev/ttyS1 or
+ /dev/ttyS2 with hardware flow control disabled.
+
+7. Type data on the minicom terminal or send data to the terminal emulation
+ program and read the data.
+
+ Data is loop backed from hosts mtty driver.
+
+8. Destroy the mediated device that you created.
+
+ # echo 1 > /sys/bus/mdev/devices/83b8f4f2-509f-382f-3c1e-e6bfe0fa1001/remove
+
References
-----------
+==========
[1] See Documentation/vfio.txt for more information on VFIO.
[2] struct mdev_driver in include/linux/mdev.h