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authorBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2016-10-05 14:00:21 -0500
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>2016-10-05 14:00:21 -0500
commitbdf530984d10b6b88b10a6d03057409a3f1c6897 (patch)
tree9ae670861f37cd57c21d92bf6fb1b50c4cacd2f6 /Documentation
parent69a06e49843b29b296689fa2a7fc320d81aa7c64 (diff)
parent181ffd19cc9898f795646bf9a897072a419a51ed (diff)
downloadlinux-bdf530984d10b6b88b10a6d03057409a3f1c6897.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'pci/host-vmd' into next
* pci/host-vmd: x86/PCI: VMD: Move VMD driver to drivers/pci/host x86/PCI: VMD: Synchronize with RCU freeing MSI IRQ descs x86/PCI: VMD: Eliminate index member from IRQ list x86/PCI: VMD: Eliminate vmd_vector member from list type x86/PCI: VMD: Convert to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors() API x86/PCI: VMD: Allocate IRQ lists with correct MSI-X count PCI: Use positive flags in pci_alloc_irq_vectors() PCI: Update "pci=resource_alignment" documentation Conflicts: drivers/pci/host/Kconfig drivers/pci/host/Makefile
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt24
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt4
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
index c55df2911136..cd9c9f6a7cd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt
@@ -94,14 +94,11 @@ has a requirements for a minimum number of vectors the driver can pass a
min_vecs argument set to this limit, and the PCI core will return -ENOSPC
if it can't meet the minimum number of vectors.
-The flags argument should normally be set to 0, but can be used to pass the
-PCI_IRQ_NOMSI and PCI_IRQ_NOMSIX flag in case a device claims to support
-MSI or MSI-X, but the support is broken, or to pass PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY in
-case the device does not support legacy interrupt lines.
-
-By default this function will spread the interrupts around the available
-CPUs, but this feature can be disabled by passing the PCI_IRQ_NOAFFINITY
-flag.
+The flags argument is used to specify which type of interrupt can be used
+by the device and the driver (PCI_IRQ_LEGACY, PCI_IRQ_MSI, PCI_IRQ_MSIX).
+A convenient short-hand (PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES) is also available to ask for
+any possible kind of interrupt. If the PCI_IRQ_AFFINITY flag is set,
+pci_alloc_irq_vectors() will spread the interrupts around the available CPUs.
To get the Linux IRQ numbers passed to request_irq() and free_irq() and the
vectors, use the following function:
@@ -131,7 +128,7 @@ larger than the number supported by the device it will automatically be
capped to the supported limit, so there is no need to query the number of
vectors supported beforehand:
- nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, 0);
+ nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES)
if (nvec < 0)
goto out_err;
@@ -140,7 +137,7 @@ interrupts it can request a particular number of interrupts by passing that
number to pci_alloc_irq_vectors() function as both 'min_vecs' and
'max_vecs' parameters:
- ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, nvec, nvec, 0);
+ ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, nvec, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES);
if (ret < 0)
goto out_err;
@@ -148,15 +145,14 @@ The most notorious example of the request type described above is enabling
the single MSI mode for a device. It could be done by passing two 1s as
'min_vecs' and 'max_vecs':
- ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, 0);
+ ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES);
if (ret < 0)
goto out_err;
Some devices might not support using legacy line interrupts, in which case
-the PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY flag can be used to fail the request if the platform
-can't provide MSI or MSI-X interrupts:
+the driver can specify that only MSI or MSI-X is acceptable:
- nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY);
+ nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_MSI | PCI_IRQ_MSIX);
if (nvec < 0)
goto out_err;
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 46c030a49186..a4f4d693e2c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3032,6 +3032,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
PAGE_SIZE is used as alignment.
PCI-PCI bridge can be specified, if resource
windows need to be expanded.
+ To specify the alignment for several
+ instances of a device, the PCI vendor,
+ device, subvendor, and subdevice may be
+ specified, e.g., 4096@pci:8086:9c22:103c:198f
ecrc= Enable/disable PCIe ECRC (transaction layer
end-to-end CRC checking).
bios: Use BIOS/firmware settings. This is the