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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst index f3939f7852bd..0bf86a445d01 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/i2c.rst @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to synchronize clocks from slower clients. -The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master side of bus -interactions, not the slave side. The programming interface is +The Linux I2C programming interfaces support the master side of bus +interactions and the slave side. The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver, and two kinds of device. An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and exposes a @@ -22,9 +22,8 @@ physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and exposes a I2C bus segment it manages. On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a :c:type:`struct i2c_client <i2c_client>`. Those devices will be bound to a :c:type:`struct i2c_driver -<i2c_driver>`, which should follow the standard Linux driver -model. (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.) There are -functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at this writing +<i2c_driver>`, which should follow the standard Linux driver model. There +are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at this writing all such functions are usable only from task context. The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol. Most SMBus diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst index 8058a87c1c74..3cf1acebc4ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst @@ -32,7 +32,13 @@ available subsections can be seen below. i2c hsi edac + scsi + libata + mtdnand miscellaneous + w1 + rapidio + s390-drivers vme 80211/index uio-howto diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/libata.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/libata.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4adc056f7635 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/libata.rst @@ -0,0 +1,1031 @@ +======================== +libATA Developer's Guide +======================== + +:Author: Jeff Garzik + +Introduction +============ + +libATA is a library used inside the Linux kernel to support ATA host +controllers and devices. libATA provides an ATA driver API, class +transports for ATA and ATAPI devices, and SCSI<->ATA translation for ATA +devices according to the T10 SAT specification. + +This Guide documents the libATA driver API, library functions, library +internals, and a couple sample ATA low-level drivers. + +libata Driver API +================= + +:c:type:`struct ata_port_operations <ata_port_operations>` +is defined for every low-level libata +hardware driver, and it controls how the low-level driver interfaces +with the ATA and SCSI layers. + +FIS-based drivers will hook into the system with ``->qc_prep()`` and +``->qc_issue()`` high-level hooks. Hardware which behaves in a manner +similar to PCI IDE hardware may utilize several generic helpers, +defining at a bare minimum the bus I/O addresses of the ATA shadow +register blocks. + +:c:type:`struct ata_port_operations <ata_port_operations>` +---------------------------------------------------------- + +Disable ATA port +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*port_disable) (struct ata_port *); + + +Called from :c:func:`ata_bus_probe` error path, as well as when unregistering +from the SCSI module (rmmod, hot unplug). This function should do +whatever needs to be done to take the port out of use. In most cases, +:c:func:`ata_port_disable` can be used as this hook. + +Called from :c:func:`ata_bus_probe` on a failed probe. Called from +:c:func:`ata_scsi_release`. + +Post-IDENTIFY device configuration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*dev_config) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); + + +Called after IDENTIFY [PACKET] DEVICE is issued to each device found. +Typically used to apply device-specific fixups prior to issue of SET +FEATURES - XFER MODE, and prior to operation. + +This entry may be specified as NULL in ata_port_operations. + +Set PIO/DMA mode +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*set_piomode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); + void (*set_dmamode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *); + void (*post_set_mode) (struct ata_port *); + unsigned int (*mode_filter) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *, unsigned int); + + +Hooks called prior to the issue of SET FEATURES - XFER MODE command. The +optional ``->mode_filter()`` hook is called when libata has built a mask of +the possible modes. This is passed to the ``->mode_filter()`` function +which should return a mask of valid modes after filtering those +unsuitable due to hardware limits. It is not valid to use this interface +to add modes. + +``dev->pio_mode`` and ``dev->dma_mode`` are guaranteed to be valid when +``->set_piomode()`` and when ``->set_dmamode()`` is called. The timings for +any other drive sharing the cable will also be valid at this point. That +is the library records the decisions for the modes of each drive on a +channel before it attempts to set any of them. + +``->post_set_mode()`` is called unconditionally, after the SET FEATURES - +XFER MODE command completes successfully. + +``->set_piomode()`` is always called (if present), but ``->set_dma_mode()`` +is only called if DMA is possible. + +Taskfile read/write +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*sff_tf_load) (struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf); + void (*sff_tf_read) (struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf); + + +``->tf_load()`` is called to load the given taskfile into hardware +registers / DMA buffers. ``->tf_read()`` is called to read the hardware +registers / DMA buffers, to obtain the current set of taskfile register +values. Most drivers for taskfile-based hardware (PIO or MMIO) use +:c:func:`ata_sff_tf_load` and :c:func:`ata_sff_tf_read` for these hooks. + +PIO data read/write +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*sff_data_xfer) (struct ata_device *, unsigned char *, unsigned int, int); + + +All bmdma-style drivers must implement this hook. This is the low-level +operation that actually copies the data bytes during a PIO data +transfer. Typically the driver will choose one of +:c:func:`ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq`, :c:func:`ata_sff_data_xfer`, or +:c:func:`ata_sff_data_xfer32`. + +ATA command execute +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*sff_exec_command)(struct ata_port *ap, struct ata_taskfile *tf); + + +causes an ATA command, previously loaded with ``->tf_load()``, to be +initiated in hardware. Most drivers for taskfile-based hardware use +:c:func:`ata_sff_exec_command` for this hook. + +Per-cmd ATAPI DMA capabilities filter +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + int (*check_atapi_dma) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + + +Allow low-level driver to filter ATA PACKET commands, returning a status +indicating whether or not it is OK to use DMA for the supplied PACKET +command. + +This hook may be specified as NULL, in which case libata will assume +that atapi dma can be supported. + +Read specific ATA shadow registers +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + u8 (*sff_check_status)(struct ata_port *ap); + u8 (*sff_check_altstatus)(struct ata_port *ap); + + +Reads the Status/AltStatus ATA shadow register from hardware. On some +hardware, reading the Status register has the side effect of clearing +the interrupt condition. Most drivers for taskfile-based hardware use +:c:func:`ata_sff_check_status` for this hook. + +Write specific ATA shadow register +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*sff_set_devctl)(struct ata_port *ap, u8 ctl); + + +Write the device control ATA shadow register to the hardware. Most +drivers don't need to define this. + +Select ATA device on bus +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*sff_dev_select)(struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int device); + + +Issues the low-level hardware command(s) that causes one of N hardware +devices to be considered 'selected' (active and available for use) on +the ATA bus. This generally has no meaning on FIS-based devices. + +Most drivers for taskfile-based hardware use :c:func:`ata_sff_dev_select` for +this hook. + +Private tuning method +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*set_mode) (struct ata_port *ap); + + +By default libata performs drive and controller tuning in accordance +with the ATA timing rules and also applies blacklists and cable limits. +Some controllers need special handling and have custom tuning rules, +typically raid controllers that use ATA commands but do not actually do +drive timing. + + **Warning** + + This hook should not be used to replace the standard controller + tuning logic when a controller has quirks. Replacing the default + tuning logic in that case would bypass handling for drive and bridge + quirks that may be important to data reliability. If a controller + needs to filter the mode selection it should use the mode_filter + hook instead. + +Control PCI IDE BMDMA engine +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*bmdma_setup) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + void (*bmdma_start) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + void (*bmdma_stop) (struct ata_port *ap); + u8 (*bmdma_status) (struct ata_port *ap); + + +When setting up an IDE BMDMA transaction, these hooks arm +(``->bmdma_setup``), fire (``->bmdma_start``), and halt (``->bmdma_stop``) the +hardware's DMA engine. ``->bmdma_status`` is used to read the standard PCI +IDE DMA Status register. + +These hooks are typically either no-ops, or simply not implemented, in +FIS-based drivers. + +Most legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_bmdma_setup` for the +:c:func:`bmdma_setup` hook. :c:func:`ata_bmdma_setup` will write the pointer +to the PRD table to the IDE PRD Table Address register, enable DMA in the DMA +Command register, and call :c:func:`exec_command` to begin the transfer. + +Most legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_bmdma_start` for the +:c:func:`bmdma_start` hook. :c:func:`ata_bmdma_start` will write the +ATA_DMA_START flag to the DMA Command register. + +Many legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_bmdma_stop` for the +:c:func:`bmdma_stop` hook. :c:func:`ata_bmdma_stop` clears the ATA_DMA_START +flag in the DMA command register. + +Many legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_bmdma_status` as the +:c:func:`bmdma_status` hook. + +High-level taskfile hooks +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*qc_prep) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + int (*qc_issue) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + + +Higher-level hooks, these two hooks can potentially supercede several of +the above taskfile/DMA engine hooks. ``->qc_prep`` is called after the +buffers have been DMA-mapped, and is typically used to populate the +hardware's DMA scatter-gather table. Most drivers use the standard +:c:func:`ata_qc_prep` helper function, but more advanced drivers roll their +own. + +``->qc_issue`` is used to make a command active, once the hardware and S/G +tables have been prepared. IDE BMDMA drivers use the helper function +:c:func:`ata_qc_issue_prot` for taskfile protocol-based dispatch. More +advanced drivers implement their own ``->qc_issue``. + +:c:func:`ata_qc_issue_prot` calls ``->tf_load()``, ``->bmdma_setup()``, and +``->bmdma_start()`` as necessary to initiate a transfer. + +Exception and probe handling (EH) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + void (*eng_timeout) (struct ata_port *ap); + void (*phy_reset) (struct ata_port *ap); + + +Deprecated. Use ``->error_handler()`` instead. + +:: + + void (*freeze) (struct ata_port *ap); + void (*thaw) (struct ata_port *ap); + + +:c:func:`ata_port_freeze` is called when HSM violations or some other +condition disrupts normal operation of the port. A frozen port is not +allowed to perform any operation until the port is thawed, which usually +follows a successful reset. + +The optional ``->freeze()`` callback can be used for freezing the port +hardware-wise (e.g. mask interrupt and stop DMA engine). If a port +cannot be frozen hardware-wise, the interrupt handler must ack and clear +interrupts unconditionally while the port is frozen. + +The optional ``->thaw()`` callback is called to perform the opposite of +``->freeze()``: prepare the port for normal operation once again. Unmask +interrupts, start DMA engine, etc. + +:: + + void (*error_handler) (struct ata_port *ap); + + +``->error_handler()`` is a driver's hook into probe, hotplug, and recovery +and other exceptional conditions. The primary responsibility of an +implementation is to call :c:func:`ata_do_eh` or :c:func:`ata_bmdma_drive_eh` +with a set of EH hooks as arguments: + +'prereset' hook (may be NULL) is called during an EH reset, before any +other actions are taken. + +'postreset' hook (may be NULL) is called after the EH reset is +performed. Based on existing conditions, severity of the problem, and +hardware capabilities, + +Either 'softreset' (may be NULL) or 'hardreset' (may be NULL) will be +called to perform the low-level EH reset. + +:: + + void (*post_internal_cmd) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc); + + +Perform any hardware-specific actions necessary to finish processing +after executing a probe-time or EH-time command via +:c:func:`ata_exec_internal`. + +Hardware interrupt handling +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + irqreturn_t (*irq_handler)(int, void *, struct pt_regs *); + void (*irq_clear) (struct ata_port *); + + +``->irq_handler`` is the interrupt handling routine registered with the +system, by libata. ``->irq_clear`` is called during probe just before the +interrupt handler is registered, to be sure hardware is quiet. + +The second argument, dev_instance, should be cast to a pointer to +:c:type:`struct ata_host_set <ata_host_set>`. + +Most legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_sff_interrupt` for the irq_handler +hook, which scans all ports in the host_set, determines which queued +command was active (if any), and calls ata_sff_host_intr(ap,qc). + +Most legacy IDE drivers use :c:func:`ata_sff_irq_clear` for the +:c:func:`irq_clear` hook, which simply clears the interrupt and error flags +in the DMA status register. + +SATA phy read/write +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + int (*scr_read) (struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int sc_reg, + u32 *val); + int (*scr_write) (struct ata_port *ap, unsigned int sc_reg, + u32 val); + + +Read and write standard SATA phy registers. Currently only used if +``->phy_reset`` hook called the :c:func:`sata_phy_reset` helper function. +sc_reg is one of SCR_STATUS, SCR_CONTROL, SCR_ERROR, or SCR_ACTIVE. + +Init and shutdown +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:: + + int (*port_start) (struct ata_port *ap); + void (*port_stop) (struct ata_port *ap); + void (*host_stop) (struct ata_host_set *host_set); + + +``->port_start()`` is called just after the data structures for each port +are initialized. Typically this is used to alloc per-port DMA buffers / +tables / rings, enable DMA engines, and similar tasks. Some drivers also +use this entry point as a chance to allocate driver-private memory for +``ap->private_data``. + +Many drivers use :c:func:`ata_port_start` as this hook or call it from their +own :c:func:`port_start` hooks. :c:func:`ata_port_start` allocates space for +a legacy IDE PRD table and returns. + +``->port_stop()`` is called after ``->host_stop()``. Its sole function is to +release DMA/memory resources, now that they are no longer actively being +used. Many drivers also free driver-private data from port at this time. + +``->host_stop()`` is called after all ``->port_stop()`` calls have completed. +The hook must finalize hardware shutdown, release DMA and other +resources, etc. This hook may be specified as NULL, in which case it is +not called. + +Error handling +============== + +This chapter describes how errors are handled under libata. Readers are +advised to read SCSI EH (Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt) and ATA +exceptions doc first. + +Origins of commands +------------------- + +In libata, a command is represented with +:c:type:`struct ata_queued_cmd <ata_queued_cmd>` or qc. +qc's are preallocated during port initialization and repetitively used +for command executions. Currently only one qc is allocated per port but +yet-to-be-merged NCQ branch allocates one for each tag and maps each qc +to NCQ tag 1-to-1. + +libata commands can originate from two sources - libata itself and SCSI +midlayer. libata internal commands are used for initialization and error +handling. All normal blk requests and commands for SCSI emulation are +passed as SCSI commands through queuecommand callback of SCSI host +template. + +How commands are issued +----------------------- + +Internal commands + First, qc is allocated and initialized using :c:func:`ata_qc_new_init`. + Although :c:func:`ata_qc_new_init` doesn't implement any wait or retry + mechanism when qc is not available, internal commands are currently + issued only during initialization and error recovery, so no other + command is active and allocation is guaranteed to succeed. + + Once allocated qc's taskfile is initialized for the command to be + executed. qc currently has two mechanisms to notify completion. One + is via ``qc->complete_fn()`` callback and the other is completion + ``qc->waiting``. ``qc->complete_fn()`` callback is the asynchronous path + used by normal SCSI translated commands and ``qc->waiting`` is the + synchronous (issuer sleeps in process context) path used by internal + commands. + + Once initialization is complete, host_set lock is acquired and the + qc is issued. + +SCSI commands + All libata drivers use :c:func:`ata_scsi_queuecmd` as + ``hostt->queuecommand`` callback. scmds can either be simulated or + translated. No qc is involved in processing a simulated scmd. The + result is computed right away and the scmd is completed. + + For a translated scmd, :c:func:`ata_qc_new_init` is invoked to allocate a + qc and the scmd is translated into the qc. SCSI midlayer's + completion notification function pointer is stored into + ``qc->scsidone``. + + ``qc->complete_fn()`` callback is used for completion notification. ATA + commands use :c:func:`ata_scsi_qc_complete` while ATAPI commands use + :c:func:`atapi_qc_complete`. Both functions end up calling ``qc->scsidone`` + to notify upper layer when the qc is finished. After translation is + completed, the qc is issued with :c:func:`ata_qc_issue`. + + Note that SCSI midlayer invokes hostt->queuecommand while holding + host_set lock, so all above occur while holding host_set lock. + +How commands are processed +-------------------------- + +Depending on which protocol and which controller are used, commands are +processed differently. For the purpose of discussion, a controller which +uses taskfile interface and all standard callbacks is assumed. + +Currently 6 ATA command protocols are used. They can be sorted into the +following four categories according to how they are processed. + +ATA NO DATA or DMA + ATA_PROT_NODATA and ATA_PROT_DMA fall into this category. These + types of commands don't require any software intervention once + issued. Device will raise interrupt on completion. + +ATA PIO + ATA_PROT_PIO is in this category. libata currently implements PIO + with polling. ATA_NIEN bit is set to turn off interrupt and + pio_task on ata_wq performs polling and IO. + +ATAPI NODATA or DMA + ATA_PROT_ATAPI_NODATA and ATA_PROT_ATAPI_DMA are in this + category. packet_task is used to poll BSY bit after issuing PACKET + command. Once BSY is turned off by the device, packet_task + transfers CDB and hands off processing to interrupt handler. + +ATAPI PIO + ATA_PROT_ATAPI is in this category. ATA_NIEN bit is set and, as + in ATAPI NODATA or DMA, packet_task submits cdb. However, after + submitting cdb, further processing (data transfer) is handed off to + pio_task. + +How commands are completed +-------------------------- + +Once issued, all qc's are either completed with :c:func:`ata_qc_complete` or +time out. For commands which are handled by interrupts, +:c:func:`ata_host_intr` invokes :c:func:`ata_qc_complete`, and, for PIO tasks, +pio_task invokes :c:func:`ata_qc_complete`. In error cases, packet_task may +also complete commands. + +:c:func:`ata_qc_complete` does the following. + +1. DMA memory is unmapped. + +2. ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE is cleared from qc->flags. + +3. :c:func:`qc->complete_fn` callback is invoked. If the return value of the + callback is not zero. Completion is short circuited and + :c:func:`ata_qc_complete` returns. + +4. :c:func:`__ata_qc_complete` is called, which does + + 1. ``qc->flags`` is cleared to zero. + + 2. ``ap->active_tag`` and ``qc->tag`` are poisoned. + + 3. ``qc->waiting`` is cleared & completed (in that order). + + 4. qc is deallocated by clearing appropriate bit in ``ap->qactive``. + +So, it basically notifies upper layer and deallocates qc. One exception +is short-circuit path in #3 which is used by :c:func:`atapi_qc_complete`. + +For all non-ATAPI commands, whether it fails or not, almost the same +code path is taken and very little error handling takes place. A qc is +completed with success status if it succeeded, with failed status +otherwise. + +However, failed ATAPI commands require more handling as REQUEST SENSE is +needed to acquire sense data. If an ATAPI command fails, +:c:func:`ata_qc_complete` is invoked with error status, which in turn invokes +:c:func:`atapi_qc_complete` via ``qc->complete_fn()`` callback. + +This makes :c:func:`atapi_qc_complete` set ``scmd->result`` to +SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION, complete the scmd and return 1. As the +sense data is empty but ``scmd->result`` is CHECK CONDITION, SCSI midlayer +will invoke EH for the scmd, and returning 1 makes :c:func:`ata_qc_complete` +to return without deallocating the qc. This leads us to +:c:func:`ata_scsi_error` with partially completed qc. + +:c:func:`ata_scsi_error` +------------------------ + +:c:func:`ata_scsi_error` is the current ``transportt->eh_strategy_handler()`` +for libata. As discussed above, this will be entered in two cases - +timeout and ATAPI error completion. This function calls low level libata +driver's :c:func:`eng_timeout` callback, the standard callback for which is +:c:func:`ata_eng_timeout`. It checks if a qc is active and calls +:c:func:`ata_qc_timeout` on the qc if so. Actual error handling occurs in +:c:func:`ata_qc_timeout`. + +If EH is invoked for timeout, :c:func:`ata_qc_timeout` stops BMDMA and +completes the qc. Note that as we're currently in EH, we cannot call +scsi_done. As described in SCSI EH doc, a recovered scmd should be +either retried with :c:func:`scsi_queue_insert` or finished with +:c:func:`scsi_finish_command`. Here, we override ``qc->scsidone`` with +:c:func:`scsi_finish_command` and calls :c:func:`ata_qc_complete`. + +If EH is invoked due to a failed ATAPI qc, the qc here is completed but +not deallocated. The purpose of this half-completion is to use the qc as +place holder to make EH code reach this place. This is a bit hackish, +but it works. + +Once control reaches here, the qc is deallocated by invoking +:c:func:`__ata_qc_complete` explicitly. Then, internal qc for REQUEST SENSE +is issued. Once sense data is acquired, scmd is finished by directly +invoking :c:func:`scsi_finish_command` on the scmd. Note that as we already +have completed and deallocated the qc which was associated with the +scmd, we don't need to/cannot call :c:func:`ata_qc_complete` again. + +Problems with the current EH +---------------------------- + +- Error representation is too crude. Currently any and all error + conditions are represented with ATA STATUS and ERROR registers. + Errors which aren't ATA device errors are treated as ATA device + errors by setting ATA_ERR bit. Better error descriptor which can + properly represent ATA and other errors/exceptions is needed. + +- When handling timeouts, no action is taken to make device forget + about the timed out command and ready for new commands. + +- EH handling via :c:func:`ata_scsi_error` is not properly protected from + usual command processing. On EH entrance, the device is not in + quiescent state. Timed out commands may succeed or fail any time. + pio_task and atapi_task may still be running. + +- Too weak error recovery. Devices / controllers causing HSM mismatch + errors and other errors quite often require reset to return to known + state. Also, advanced error handling is necessary to support features + like NCQ and hotplug. + +- ATA errors are directly handled in the interrupt handler and PIO + errors in pio_task. This is problematic for advanced error handling + for the following reasons. + + First, advanced error handling often requires context and internal qc + execution. + + Second, even a simple failure (say, CRC error) needs information + gathering and could trigger complex error handling (say, resetting & + reconfiguring). Having multiple code paths to gather information, + enter EH and trigger actions makes life painful. + + Third, scattered EH code makes implementing low level drivers + difficult. Low level drivers override libata callbacks. If EH is + scattered over several places, each affected callbacks should perform + its part of error handling. This can be error prone and painful. + +libata Library +============== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/libata-core.c + :export: + +libata Core Internals +===================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/libata-core.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/libata-eh.c + +libata SCSI translation/emulation +================================= + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c + :internal: + +ATA errors and exceptions +========================= + +This chapter tries to identify what error/exception conditions exist for +ATA/ATAPI devices and describe how they should be handled in +implementation-neutral way. + +The term 'error' is used to describe conditions where either an explicit +error condition is reported from device or a command has timed out. + +The term 'exception' is either used to describe exceptional conditions +which are not errors (say, power or hotplug events), or to describe both +errors and non-error exceptional conditions. Where explicit distinction +between error and exception is necessary, the term 'non-error exception' +is used. + +Exception categories +-------------------- + +Exceptions are described primarily with respect to legacy taskfile + bus +master IDE interface. If a controller provides other better mechanism +for error reporting, mapping those into categories described below +shouldn't be difficult. + +In the following sections, two recovery actions - reset and +reconfiguring transport - are mentioned. These are described further in +`EH recovery actions <#exrec>`__. + +HSM violation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This error is indicated when STATUS value doesn't match HSM requirement +during issuing or execution any ATA/ATAPI command. + +- ATA_STATUS doesn't contain !BSY && DRDY && !DRQ while trying to + issue a command. + +- !BSY && !DRQ during PIO data transfer. + +- DRQ on command completion. + +- !BSY && ERR after CDB transfer starts but before the last byte of CDB + is transferred. ATA/ATAPI standard states that "The device shall not + terminate the PACKET command with an error before the last byte of + the command packet has been written" in the error outputs description + of PACKET command and the state diagram doesn't include such + transitions. + +In these cases, HSM is violated and not much information regarding the +error can be acquired from STATUS or ERROR register. IOW, this error can +be anything - driver bug, faulty device, controller and/or cable. + +As HSM is violated, reset is necessary to restore known state. +Reconfiguring transport for lower speed might be helpful too as +transmission errors sometimes cause this kind of errors. + +ATA/ATAPI device error (non-NCQ / non-CHECK CONDITION) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +These are errors detected and reported by ATA/ATAPI devices indicating +device problems. For this type of errors, STATUS and ERROR register +values are valid and describe error condition. Note that some of ATA bus +errors are detected by ATA/ATAPI devices and reported using the same +mechanism as device errors. Those cases are described later in this +section. + +For ATA commands, this type of errors are indicated by !BSY && ERR +during command execution and on completion. + +For ATAPI commands, + +- !BSY && ERR && ABRT right after issuing PACKET indicates that PACKET + command is not supported and falls in this category. + +- !BSY && ERR(==CHK) && !ABRT after the last byte of CDB is transferred + indicates CHECK CONDITION and doesn't fall in this category. + +- !BSY && ERR(==CHK) && ABRT after the last byte of CDB is transferred + \*probably\* indicates CHECK CONDITION and doesn't fall in this + category. + +Of errors detected as above, the following are not ATA/ATAPI device +errors but ATA bus errors and should be handled according to +`ATA bus error <#excatATAbusErr>`__. + +CRC error during data transfer + This is indicated by ICRC bit in the ERROR register and means that + corruption occurred during data transfer. Up to ATA/ATAPI-7, the + standard specifies that this bit is only applicable to UDMA + transfers but ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f says that the bit may be + applicable to multiword DMA and PIO. + +ABRT error during data transfer or on completion + Up to ATA/ATAPI-7, the standard specifies that ABRT could be set on + ICRC errors and on cases where a device is not able to complete a + command. Combined with the fact that MWDMA and PIO transfer errors + aren't allowed to use ICRC bit up to ATA/ATAPI-7, it seems to imply + that ABRT bit alone could indicate transfer errors. + + However, ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f removes the part that ICRC + errors can turn on ABRT. So, this is kind of gray area. Some + heuristics are needed here. + +ATA/ATAPI device errors can be further categorized as follows. + +Media errors + This is indicated by UNC bit in the ERROR register. ATA devices + reports UNC error only after certain number of retries cannot + recover the data, so there's nothing much else to do other than + notifying upper layer. + + READ and WRITE commands report CHS or LBA of the first failed sector + but ATA/ATAPI standard specifies that the amount of transferred data + on error completion is indeterminate, so we cannot assume that + sectors preceding the failed sector have been transferred and thus + cannot complete those sectors successfully as SCSI does. + +Media changed / media change requested error + <<TODO: fill here>> + +Address error + This is indicated by IDNF bit in the ERROR register. Report to upper + layer. + +Other errors + This can be invalid command or parameter indicated by ABRT ERROR bit + or some other error condition. Note that ABRT bit can indicate a lot + of things including ICRC and Address errors. Heuristics needed. + +Depending on commands, not all STATUS/ERROR bits are applicable. These +non-applicable bits are marked with "na" in the output descriptions but +up to ATA/ATAPI-7 no definition of "na" can be found. However, +ATA/ATAPI-8 draft revision 1f describes "N/A" as follows. + + 3.2.3.3a N/A + A keyword the indicates a field has no defined value in this + standard and should not be checked by the host or device. N/A + fields should be cleared to zero. + +So, it seems reasonable to assume that "na" bits are cleared to zero by +devices and thus need no explicit masking. + +ATAPI device CHECK CONDITION +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +ATAPI device CHECK CONDITION error is indicated by set CHK bit (ERR bit) +in the STATUS register after the last byte of CDB is transferred for a +PACKET command. For this kind of errors, sense data should be acquired +to gather information regarding the errors. REQUEST SENSE packet command +should be used to acquire sense data. + +Once sense data is acquired, this type of errors can be handled +similarly to other SCSI errors. Note that sense data may indicate ATA +bus error (e.g. Sense Key 04h HARDWARE ERROR && ASC/ASCQ 47h/00h SCSI +PARITY ERROR). In such cases, the error should be considered as an ATA +bus error and handled according to `ATA bus error <#excatATAbusErr>`__. + +ATA device error (NCQ) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +NCQ command error is indicated by cleared BSY and set ERR bit during NCQ +command phase (one or more NCQ commands outstanding). Although STATUS +and ERROR registers will contain valid values describing the error, READ +LOG EXT is required to clear the error condition, determine which +command has failed and acquire more information. + +READ LOG EXT Log Page 10h reports which tag has failed and taskfile +register values describing the error. With this information the failed +command can be handled as a normal ATA command error as in +`ATA/ATAPI device error (non-NCQ / non-CHECK CONDITION) <#excatDevErr>`__ +and all other in-flight commands must be retried. Note that this retry +should not be counted - it's likely that commands retried this way would +have completed normally if it were not for the failed command. + +Note that ATA bus errors can be reported as ATA device NCQ errors. This +should be handled as described in `ATA bus error <#excatATAbusErr>`__. + +If READ LOG EXT Log Page 10h fails or reports NQ, we're thoroughly +screwed. This condition should be treated according to +`HSM violation <#excatHSMviolation>`__. + +ATA bus error +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +ATA bus error means that data corruption occurred during transmission +over ATA bus (SATA or PATA). This type of errors can be indicated by + +- ICRC or ABRT error as described in + `ATA/ATAPI device error (non-NCQ / non-CHECK CONDITION) <#excatDevErr>`__. + +- Controller-specific error completion with error information + indicating transmission error. + +- On some controllers, command timeout. In this case, there may be a + mechanism to determine that the timeout is due to transmission error. + +- Unknown/random errors, timeouts and all sorts of weirdities. + +As described above, transmission errors can cause wide variety of +symptoms ranging from device ICRC error to random device lockup, and, +for many cases, there is no way to tell if an error condition is due to +transmission error or not; therefore, it's necessary to employ some kind +of heuristic when dealing with errors and timeouts. For example, +encountering repetitive ABRT errors for known supported command is +likely to indicate ATA bus error. + +Once it's determined that ATA bus errors have possibly occurred, +lowering ATA bus transmission speed is one of actions which may +alleviate the problem. See `Reconfigure transport <#exrecReconf>`__ for +more information. + +PCI bus error +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Data corruption or other failures during transmission over PCI (or other +system bus). For standard BMDMA, this is indicated by Error bit in the +BMDMA Status register. This type of errors must be logged as it +indicates something is very wrong with the system. Resetting host +controller is recommended. + +Late completion +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This occurs when timeout occurs and the timeout handler finds out that +the timed out command has completed successfully or with error. This is +usually caused by lost interrupts. This type of errors must be logged. +Resetting host controller is recommended. + +Unknown error (timeout) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +This is when timeout occurs and the command is still processing or the +host and device are in unknown state. When this occurs, HSM could be in +any valid or invalid state. To bring the device to known state and make +it forget about the timed out command, resetting is necessary. The timed +out command may be retried. + +Timeouts can also be caused by transmission errors. Refer to +`ATA bus error <#excatATAbusErr>`__ for more details. + +Hotplug and power management exceptions +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +<<TODO: fill here>> + +EH recovery actions +------------------- + +This section discusses several important recovery actions. + +Clearing error condition +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Many controllers require its error registers to be cleared by error +handler. Different controllers may have different requirements. + +For SATA, it's strongly recommended to clear at least SError register +during error handling. + +Reset +~~~~~ + +During EH, resetting is necessary in the following cases. + +- HSM is in unknown or invalid state + +- HBA is in unknown or invalid state + +- EH needs to make HBA/device forget about in-flight commands + +- HBA/device behaves weirdly + +Resetting during EH might be a good idea regardless of error condition +to improve EH robustness. Whether to reset both or either one of HBA and +device depends on situation but the following scheme is recommended. + +- When it's known that HBA is in ready state but ATA/ATAPI device is in + unknown state, reset only device. + +- If HBA is in unknown state, reset both HBA and device. + +HBA resetting is implementation specific. For a controller complying to +taskfile/BMDMA PCI IDE, stopping active DMA transaction may be +sufficient iff BMDMA state is the only HBA context. But even mostly +taskfile/BMDMA PCI IDE complying controllers may have implementation +specific requirements and mechanism to reset themselves. This must be +addressed by specific drivers. + +OTOH, ATA/ATAPI standard describes in detail ways to reset ATA/ATAPI +devices. + +PATA hardware reset + This is hardware initiated device reset signalled with asserted PATA + RESET- signal. There is no standard way to initiate hardware reset + from software although some hardware provides registers that allow + driver to directly tweak the RESET- signal. + +Software reset + This is achieved by turning CONTROL SRST bit on for at least 5us. + Both PATA and SATA support it but, in case of SATA, this may require + controller-specific support as the second Register FIS to clear SRST + should be transmitted while BSY bit is still set. Note that on PATA, + this resets both master and slave devices on a channel. + +EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC command + Although ATA/ATAPI standard doesn't describe exactly, EDD implies + some level of resetting, possibly similar level with software reset. + Host-side EDD protocol can be handled with normal command processing + and most SATA controllers should be able to handle EDD's just like + other commands. As in software reset, EDD affects both devices on a + PATA bus. + + Although EDD does reset devices, this doesn't suit error handling as + EDD cannot be issued while BSY is set and it's unclear how it will + act when device is in unknown/weird state. + +ATAPI DEVICE RESET command + This is very similar to software reset except that reset can be + restricted to the selected device without affecting the other device + sharing the cable. + +SATA phy reset + This is the preferred way of resetting a SATA device. In effect, + it's identical to PATA hardware reset. Note that this can be done + with the standard SCR Control register. As such, it's usually easier + to implement than software reset. + +One more thing to consider when resetting devices is that resetting +clears certain configuration parameters and they need to be set to their +previous or newly adjusted values after reset. + +Parameters affected are. + +- CHS set up with INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS (seldom used) + +- Parameters set with SET FEATURES including transfer mode setting + +- Block count set with SET MULTIPLE MODE + +- Other parameters (SET MAX, MEDIA LOCK...) + +ATA/ATAPI standard specifies that some parameters must be maintained +across hardware or software reset, but doesn't strictly specify all of +them. Always reconfiguring needed parameters after reset is required for +robustness. Note that this also applies when resuming from deep sleep +(power-off). + +Also, ATA/ATAPI standard requires that IDENTIFY DEVICE / IDENTIFY PACKET +DEVICE is issued after any configuration parameter is updated or a +hardware reset and the result used for further operation. OS driver is +required to implement revalidation mechanism to support this. + +Reconfigure transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +For both PATA and SATA, a lot of corners are cut for cheap connectors, +cables or controllers and it's quite common to see high transmission +error rate. This can be mitigated by lowering transmission speed. + +The following is a possible scheme Jeff Garzik suggested. + + If more than $N (3?) transmission errors happen in 15 minutes, + + - if SATA, decrease SATA PHY speed. if speed cannot be decreased, + + - decrease UDMA xfer speed. if at UDMA0, switch to PIO4, + + - decrease PIO xfer speed. if at PIO3, complain, but continue + +ata_piix Internals +=================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/ata_piix.c + :internal: + +sata_sil Internals +=================== + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/ata/sata_sil.c + :internal: + +Thanks +====== + +The bulk of the ATA knowledge comes thanks to long conversations with +Andre Hedrick (www.linux-ide.org), and long hours pondering the ATA and +SCSI specifications. + +Thanks to Alan Cox for pointing out similarities between SATA and SCSI, +and in general for motivation to hack on libata. + +libata's device detection method, ata_pio_devchk, and in general all +the early probing was based on extensive study of Hale Landis's +probe/reset code in his ATADRVR driver (www.ata-atapi.com). diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/mtdnand.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/mtdnand.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e9afa586d15e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/mtdnand.rst @@ -0,0 +1,1007 @@ +===================================== +MTD NAND Driver Programming Interface +===================================== + +:Author: Thomas Gleixner + +Introduction +============ + +The generic NAND driver supports almost all NAND and AG-AND based chips +and connects them to the Memory Technology Devices (MTD) subsystem of +the Linux Kernel. + +This documentation is provided for developers who want to implement +board drivers or filesystem drivers suitable for NAND devices. + +Known Bugs And Assumptions +========================== + +None. + +Documentation hints +=================== + +The function and structure docs are autogenerated. Each function and +struct member has a short description which is marked with an [XXX] +identifier. The following chapters explain the meaning of those +identifiers. + +Function identifiers [XXX] +-------------------------- + +The functions are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the short comment. +The identifiers explain the usage and scope of the functions. Following +identifiers are used: + +- [MTD Interface] + + These functions provide the interface to the MTD kernel API. They are + not replaceable and provide functionality which is complete hardware + independent. + +- [NAND Interface] + + These functions are exported and provide the interface to the NAND + kernel API. + +- [GENERIC] + + Generic functions are not replaceable and provide functionality which + is complete hardware independent. + +- [DEFAULT] + + Default functions provide hardware related functionality which is + suitable for most of the implementations. These functions can be + replaced by the board driver if necessary. Those functions are called + via pointers in the NAND chip description structure. The board driver + can set the functions which should be replaced by board dependent + functions before calling nand_scan(). If the function pointer is + NULL on entry to nand_scan() then the pointer is set to the default + function which is suitable for the detected chip type. + +Struct member identifiers [XXX] +------------------------------- + +The struct members are marked with [XXX] identifiers in the comment. The +identifiers explain the usage and scope of the members. Following +identifiers are used: + +- [INTERN] + + These members are for NAND driver internal use only and must not be + modified. Most of these values are calculated from the chip geometry + information which is evaluated during nand_scan(). + +- [REPLACEABLE] + + Replaceable members hold hardware related functions which can be + provided by the board driver. The board driver can set the functions + which should be replaced by board dependent functions before calling + nand_scan(). If the function pointer is NULL on entry to + nand_scan() then the pointer is set to the default function which is + suitable for the detected chip type. + +- [BOARDSPECIFIC] + + Board specific members hold hardware related information which must + be provided by the board driver. The board driver must set the + function pointers and datafields before calling nand_scan(). + +- [OPTIONAL] + + Optional members can hold information relevant for the board driver. + The generic NAND driver code does not use this information. + +Basic board driver +================== + +For most boards it will be sufficient to provide just the basic +functions and fill out some really board dependent members in the nand +chip description structure. + +Basic defines +------------- + +At least you have to provide a nand_chip structure and a storage for +the ioremap'ed chip address. You can allocate the nand_chip structure +using kmalloc or you can allocate it statically. The NAND chip structure +embeds an mtd structure which will be registered to the MTD subsystem. +You can extract a pointer to the mtd structure from a nand_chip pointer +using the nand_to_mtd() helper. + +Kmalloc based example + +:: + + static struct mtd_info *board_mtd; + static void __iomem *baseaddr; + + +Static example + +:: + + static struct nand_chip board_chip; + static void __iomem *baseaddr; + + +Partition defines +----------------- + +If you want to divide your device into partitions, then define a +partitioning scheme suitable to your board. + +:: + + #define NUM_PARTITIONS 2 + static struct mtd_partition partition_info[] = { + { .name = "Flash partition 1", + .offset = 0, + .size = 8 * 1024 * 1024 }, + { .name = "Flash partition 2", + .offset = MTDPART_OFS_NEXT, + .size = MTDPART_SIZ_FULL }, + }; + + +Hardware control function +------------------------- + +The hardware control function provides access to the control pins of the +NAND chip(s). The access can be done by GPIO pins or by address lines. +If you use address lines, make sure that the timing requirements are +met. + +*GPIO based example* + +:: + + static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd) + { + switch(cmd){ + case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: /* Set CLE pin high */ break; + case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: /* Set CLE pin low */ break; + case NAND_CTL_SETALE: /* Set ALE pin high */ break; + case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: /* Set ALE pin low */ break; + case NAND_CTL_SETNCE: /* Set nCE pin low */ break; + case NAND_CTL_CLRNCE: /* Set nCE pin high */ break; + } + } + + +*Address lines based example.* It's assumed that the nCE pin is driven +by a chip select decoder. + +:: + + static void board_hwcontrol(struct mtd_info *mtd, int cmd) + { + struct nand_chip *this = mtd_to_nand(mtd); + switch(cmd){ + case NAND_CTL_SETCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= CLE_ADRR_BIT; break; + case NAND_CTL_CLRCLE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~CLE_ADRR_BIT; break; + case NAND_CTL_SETALE: this->IO_ADDR_W |= ALE_ADRR_BIT; break; + case NAND_CTL_CLRALE: this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~ALE_ADRR_BIT; break; + } + } + + +Device ready function +--------------------- + +If the hardware interface has the ready busy pin of the NAND chip +connected to a GPIO or other accessible I/O pin, this function is used +to read back the state of the pin. The function has no arguments and +should return 0, if the device is busy (R/B pin is low) and 1, if the +device is ready (R/B pin is high). If the hardware interface does not +give access to the ready busy pin, then the function must not be defined +and the function pointer this->dev_ready is set to NULL. + +Init function +------------- + +The init function allocates memory and sets up all the board specific +parameters and function pointers. When everything is set up nand_scan() +is called. This function tries to detect and identify then chip. If a +chip is found all the internal data fields are initialized accordingly. +The structure(s) have to be zeroed out first and then filled with the +necessary information about the device. + +:: + + static int __init board_init (void) + { + struct nand_chip *this; + int err = 0; + + /* Allocate memory for MTD device structure and private data */ + this = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!this) { + printk ("Unable to allocate NAND MTD device structure.\n"); + err = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + + board_mtd = nand_to_mtd(this); + + /* map physical address */ + baseaddr = ioremap(CHIP_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, 1024); + if (!baseaddr) { + printk("Ioremap to access NAND chip failed\n"); + err = -EIO; + goto out_mtd; + } + + /* Set address of NAND IO lines */ + this->IO_ADDR_R = baseaddr; + this->IO_ADDR_W = baseaddr; + /* Reference hardware control function */ + this->hwcontrol = board_hwcontrol; + /* Set command delay time, see datasheet for correct value */ + this->chip_delay = CHIP_DEPENDEND_COMMAND_DELAY; + /* Assign the device ready function, if available */ + this->dev_ready = board_dev_ready; + this->eccmode = NAND_ECC_SOFT; + + /* Scan to find existence of the device */ + if (nand_scan (board_mtd, 1)) { + err = -ENXIO; + goto out_ior; + } + + add_mtd_partitions(board_mtd, partition_info, NUM_PARTITIONS); + goto out; + + out_ior: + iounmap(baseaddr); + out_mtd: + kfree (this); + out: + return err; + } + module_init(board_init); + + +Exit function +------------- + +The exit function is only necessary if the driver is compiled as a +module. It releases all resources which are held by the chip driver and +unregisters the partitions in the MTD layer. + +:: + + #ifdef MODULE + static void __exit board_cleanup (void) + { + /* Release resources, unregister device */ + nand_release (board_mtd); + + /* unmap physical address */ + iounmap(baseaddr); + + /* Free the MTD device structure */ + kfree (mtd_to_nand(board_mtd)); + } + module_exit(board_cleanup); + #endif + + +Advanced board driver functions +=============================== + +This chapter describes the advanced functionality of the NAND driver. +For a list of functions which can be overridden by the board driver see +the documentation of the nand_chip structure. + +Multiple chip control +--------------------- + +The nand driver can control chip arrays. Therefore the board driver must +provide an own select_chip function. This function must (de)select the +requested chip. The function pointer in the nand_chip structure must be +set before calling nand_scan(). The maxchip parameter of nand_scan() +defines the maximum number of chips to scan for. Make sure that the +select_chip function can handle the requested number of chips. + +The nand driver concatenates the chips to one virtual chip and provides +this virtual chip to the MTD layer. + +*Note: The driver can only handle linear chip arrays of equally sized +chips. There is no support for parallel arrays which extend the +buswidth.* + +*GPIO based example* + +:: + + static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip) + { + /* Deselect all chips, set all nCE pins high */ + GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) |= 0xff; + if (chip >= 0) + GPIO(BOARD_NAND_NCE) &= ~ (1 << chip); + } + + +*Address lines based example.* Its assumed that the nCE pins are +connected to an address decoder. + +:: + + static void board_select_chip (struct mtd_info *mtd, int chip) + { + struct nand_chip *this = mtd_to_nand(mtd); + + /* Deselect all chips */ + this->IO_ADDR_R &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK; + this->IO_ADDR_W &= ~BOARD_NAND_ADDR_MASK; + switch (chip) { + case 0: + this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0; + this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIP0; + break; + .... + case n: + this->IO_ADDR_R |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn; + this->IO_ADDR_W |= BOARD_NAND_ADDR_CHIPn; + break; + } + } + + +Hardware ECC support +-------------------- + +Functions and constants +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The nand driver supports three different types of hardware ECC. + +- NAND_ECC_HW3_256 + + Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per 256 byte. + +- NAND_ECC_HW3_512 + + Hardware ECC generator providing 3 bytes ECC per 512 byte. + +- NAND_ECC_HW6_512 + + Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per 512 byte. + +- NAND_ECC_HW8_512 + + Hardware ECC generator providing 6 bytes ECC per 512 byte. + +If your hardware generator has a different functionality add it at the +appropriate place in nand_base.c + +The board driver must provide following functions: + +- enable_hwecc + + This function is called before reading / writing to the chip. Reset + or initialize the hardware generator in this function. The function + is called with an argument which let you distinguish between read and + write operations. + +- calculate_ecc + + This function is called after read / write from / to the chip. + Transfer the ECC from the hardware to the buffer. If the option + NAND_HWECC_SYNDROME is set then the function is only called on + write. See below. + +- correct_data + + In case of an ECC error this function is called for error detection + and correction. Return 1 respectively 2 in case the error can be + corrected. If the error is not correctable return -1. If your + hardware generator matches the default algorithm of the nand_ecc + software generator then use the correction function provided by + nand_ecc instead of implementing duplicated code. + +Hardware ECC with syndrome calculation +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Many hardware ECC implementations provide Reed-Solomon codes and +calculate an error syndrome on read. The syndrome must be converted to a +standard Reed-Solomon syndrome before calling the error correction code +in the generic Reed-Solomon library. + +The ECC bytes must be placed immediately after the data bytes in order +to make the syndrome generator work. This is contrary to the usual +layout used by software ECC. The separation of data and out of band area +is not longer possible. The nand driver code handles this layout and the +remaining free bytes in the oob area are managed by the autoplacement +code. Provide a matching oob-layout in this case. See rts_from4.c and +diskonchip.c for implementation reference. In those cases we must also +use bad block tables on FLASH, because the ECC layout is interfering +with the bad block marker positions. See bad block table support for +details. + +Bad block table support +----------------------- + +Most NAND chips mark the bad blocks at a defined position in the spare +area. Those blocks must not be erased under any circumstances as the bad +block information would be lost. It is possible to check the bad block +mark each time when the blocks are accessed by reading the spare area of +the first page in the block. This is time consuming so a bad block table +is used. + +The nand driver supports various types of bad block tables. + +- Per device + + The bad block table contains all bad block information of the device + which can consist of multiple chips. + +- Per chip + + A bad block table is used per chip and contains the bad block + information for this particular chip. + +- Fixed offset + + The bad block table is located at a fixed offset in the chip + (device). This applies to various DiskOnChip devices. + +- Automatic placed + + The bad block table is automatically placed and detected either at + the end or at the beginning of a chip (device) + +- Mirrored tables + + The bad block table is mirrored on the chip (device) to allow updates + of the bad block table without data loss. + +nand_scan() calls the function nand_default_bbt(). +nand_default_bbt() selects appropriate default bad block table +descriptors depending on the chip information which was retrieved by +nand_scan(). + +The standard policy is scanning the device for bad blocks and build a +ram based bad block table which allows faster access than always +checking the bad block information on the flash chip itself. + +Flash based tables +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +It may be desired or necessary to keep a bad block table in FLASH. For +AG-AND chips this is mandatory, as they have no factory marked bad +blocks. They have factory marked good blocks. The marker pattern is +erased when the block is erased to be reused. So in case of powerloss +before writing the pattern back to the chip this block would be lost and +added to the bad blocks. Therefore we scan the chip(s) when we detect +them the first time for good blocks and store this information in a bad +block table before erasing any of the blocks. + +The blocks in which the tables are stored are protected against +accidental access by marking them bad in the memory bad block table. The +bad block table management functions are allowed to circumvent this +protection. + +The simplest way to activate the FLASH based bad block table support is +to set the option NAND_BBT_USE_FLASH in the bbt_option field of the +nand chip structure before calling nand_scan(). For AG-AND chips is +this done by default. This activates the default FLASH based bad block +table functionality of the NAND driver. The default bad block table +options are + +- Store bad block table per chip + +- Use 2 bits per block + +- Automatic placement at the end of the chip + +- Use mirrored tables with version numbers + +- Reserve 4 blocks at the end of the chip + +User defined tables +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +User defined tables are created by filling out a nand_bbt_descr +structure and storing the pointer in the nand_chip structure member +bbt_td before calling nand_scan(). If a mirror table is necessary a +second structure must be created and a pointer to this structure must be +stored in bbt_md inside the nand_chip structure. If the bbt_md member +is set to NULL then only the main table is used and no scan for the +mirrored table is performed. + +The most important field in the nand_bbt_descr structure is the +options field. The options define most of the table properties. Use the +predefined constants from nand.h to define the options. + +- Number of bits per block + + The supported number of bits is 1, 2, 4, 8. + +- Table per chip + + Setting the constant NAND_BBT_PERCHIP selects that a bad block + table is managed for each chip in a chip array. If this option is not + set then a per device bad block table is used. + +- Table location is absolute + + Use the option constant NAND_BBT_ABSPAGE and define the absolute + page number where the bad block table starts in the field pages. If + you have selected bad block tables per chip and you have a multi chip + array then the start page must be given for each chip in the chip + array. Note: there is no scan for a table ident pattern performed, so + the fields pattern, veroffs, offs, len can be left uninitialized + +- Table location is automatically detected + + The table can either be located in the first or the last good blocks + of the chip (device). Set NAND_BBT_LASTBLOCK to place the bad block + table at the end of the chip (device). The bad block tables are + marked and identified by a pattern which is stored in the spare area + of the first page in the block which holds the bad block table. Store + a pointer to the pattern in the pattern field. Further the length of + the pattern has to be stored in len and the offset in the spare area + must be given in the offs member of the nand_bbt_descr structure. + For mirrored bad block tables different patterns are mandatory. + +- Table creation + + Set the option NAND_BBT_CREATE to enable the table creation if no + table can be found during the scan. Usually this is done only once if + a new chip is found. + +- Table write support + + Set the option NAND_BBT_WRITE to enable the table write support. + This allows the update of the bad block table(s) in case a block has + to be marked bad due to wear. The MTD interface function + block_markbad is calling the update function of the bad block table. + If the write support is enabled then the table is updated on FLASH. + + Note: Write support should only be enabled for mirrored tables with + version control. + +- Table version control + + Set the option NAND_BBT_VERSION to enable the table version + control. It's highly recommended to enable this for mirrored tables + with write support. It makes sure that the risk of losing the bad + block table information is reduced to the loss of the information + about the one worn out block which should be marked bad. The version + is stored in 4 consecutive bytes in the spare area of the device. The + position of the version number is defined by the member veroffs in + the bad block table descriptor. + +- Save block contents on write + + In case that the block which holds the bad block table does contain + other useful information, set the option NAND_BBT_SAVECONTENT. When + the bad block table is written then the whole block is read the bad + block table is updated and the block is erased and everything is + written back. If this option is not set only the bad block table is + written and everything else in the block is ignored and erased. + +- Number of reserved blocks + + For automatic placement some blocks must be reserved for bad block + table storage. The number of reserved blocks is defined in the + maxblocks member of the bad block table description structure. + Reserving 4 blocks for mirrored tables should be a reasonable number. + This also limits the number of blocks which are scanned for the bad + block table ident pattern. + +Spare area (auto)placement +-------------------------- + +The nand driver implements different possibilities for placement of +filesystem data in the spare area, + +- Placement defined by fs driver + +- Automatic placement + +The default placement function is automatic placement. The nand driver +has built in default placement schemes for the various chiptypes. If due +to hardware ECC functionality the default placement does not fit then +the board driver can provide a own placement scheme. + +File system drivers can provide a own placement scheme which is used +instead of the default placement scheme. + +Placement schemes are defined by a nand_oobinfo structure + +:: + + struct nand_oobinfo { + int useecc; + int eccbytes; + int eccpos[24]; + int oobfree[8][2]; + }; + + +- useecc + + The useecc member controls the ecc and placement function. The header + file include/mtd/mtd-abi.h contains constants to select ecc and + placement. MTD_NANDECC_OFF switches off the ecc complete. This is + not recommended and available for testing and diagnosis only. + MTD_NANDECC_PLACE selects caller defined placement, + MTD_NANDECC_AUTOPLACE selects automatic placement. + +- eccbytes + + The eccbytes member defines the number of ecc bytes per page. + +- eccpos + + The eccpos array holds the byte offsets in the spare area where the + ecc codes are placed. + +- oobfree + + The oobfree array defines the areas in the spare area which can be + used for automatic placement. The information is given in the format + {offset, size}. offset defines the start of the usable area, size the + length in bytes. More than one area can be defined. The list is + terminated by an {0, 0} entry. + +Placement defined by fs driver +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The calling function provides a pointer to a nand_oobinfo structure +which defines the ecc placement. For writes the caller must provide a +spare area buffer along with the data buffer. The spare area buffer size +is (number of pages) \* (size of spare area). For reads the buffer size +is (number of pages) \* ((size of spare area) + (number of ecc steps per +page) \* sizeof (int)). The driver stores the result of the ecc check +for each tuple in the spare buffer. The storage sequence is:: + + <spare data page 0><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n> + + ... + + <spare data page n><ecc result 0>...<ecc result n> + +This is a legacy mode used by YAFFS1. + +If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is done +according to the given scheme in the nand_oobinfo structure. + +Automatic placement +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Automatic placement uses the built in defaults to place the ecc bytes in +the spare area. If filesystem data have to be stored / read into the +spare area then the calling function must provide a buffer. The buffer +size per page is determined by the oobfree array in the nand_oobinfo +structure. + +If the spare area buffer is NULL then only the ECC placement is done +according to the default builtin scheme. + +Spare area autoplacement default schemes +---------------------------------------- + +256 byte pagesize +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +======== ================== =================================================== +Offset Content Comment +======== ================== =================================================== +0x00 ECC byte 0 Error correction code byte 0 +0x01 ECC byte 1 Error correction code byte 1 +0x02 ECC byte 2 Error correction code byte 2 +0x03 Autoplace 0 +0x04 Autoplace 1 +0x05 Bad block marker If any bit in this byte is zero, then this + block is bad. This applies only to the first + page in a block. In the remaining pages this + byte is reserved +0x06 Autoplace 2 +0x07 Autoplace 3 +======== ================== =================================================== + +512 byte pagesize +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + + +============= ================== ============================================== +Offset Content Comment +============= ================== ============================================== +0x00 ECC byte 0 Error correction code byte 0 of the lower + 256 Byte data in this page +0x01 ECC byte 1 Error correction code byte 1 of the lower + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x02 ECC byte 2 Error correction code byte 2 of the lower + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x03 ECC byte 3 Error correction code byte 0 of the upper + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x04 reserved reserved +0x05 Bad block marker If any bit in this byte is zero, then this + block is bad. This applies only to the first + page in a block. In the remaining pages this + byte is reserved +0x06 ECC byte 4 Error correction code byte 1 of the upper + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x07 ECC byte 5 Error correction code byte 2 of the upper + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x08 - 0x0F Autoplace 0 - 7 +============= ================== ============================================== + +2048 byte pagesize +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +=========== ================== ================================================ +Offset Content Comment +=========== ================== ================================================ +0x00 Bad block marker If any bit in this byte is zero, then this block + is bad. This applies only to the first page in a + block. In the remaining pages this byte is + reserved +0x01 Reserved Reserved +0x02-0x27 Autoplace 0 - 37 +0x28 ECC byte 0 Error correction code byte 0 of the first + 256 Byte data in this page +0x29 ECC byte 1 Error correction code byte 1 of the first + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x2A ECC byte 2 Error correction code byte 2 of the first + 256 Bytes data in this page +0x2B ECC byte 3 Error correction code byte 0 of the second + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x2C ECC byte 4 Error correction code byte 1 of the second + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x2D ECC byte 5 Error correction code byte 2 of the second + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x2E ECC byte 6 Error correction code byte 0 of the third + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x2F ECC byte 7 Error correction code byte 1 of the third + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x30 ECC byte 8 Error correction code byte 2 of the third + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x31 ECC byte 9 Error correction code byte 0 of the fourth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x32 ECC byte 10 Error correction code byte 1 of the fourth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x33 ECC byte 11 Error correction code byte 2 of the fourth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x34 ECC byte 12 Error correction code byte 0 of the fifth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x35 ECC byte 13 Error correction code byte 1 of the fifth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x36 ECC byte 14 Error correction code byte 2 of the fifth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x37 ECC byte 15 Error correction code byte 0 of the sixth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x38 ECC byte 16 Error correction code byte 1 of the sixth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x39 ECC byte 17 Error correction code byte 2 of the sixth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3A ECC byte 18 Error correction code byte 0 of the seventh + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3B ECC byte 19 Error correction code byte 1 of the seventh + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3C ECC byte 20 Error correction code byte 2 of the seventh + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3D ECC byte 21 Error correction code byte 0 of the eighth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3E ECC byte 22 Error correction code byte 1 of the eighth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +0x3F ECC byte 23 Error correction code byte 2 of the eighth + 256 Bytes of data in this page +=========== ================== ================================================ + +Filesystem support +================== + +The NAND driver provides all necessary functions for a filesystem via +the MTD interface. + +Filesystems must be aware of the NAND peculiarities and restrictions. +One major restrictions of NAND Flash is, that you cannot write as often +as you want to a page. The consecutive writes to a page, before erasing +it again, are restricted to 1-3 writes, depending on the manufacturers +specifications. This applies similar to the spare area. + +Therefore NAND aware filesystems must either write in page size chunks +or hold a writebuffer to collect smaller writes until they sum up to +pagesize. Available NAND aware filesystems: JFFS2, YAFFS. + +The spare area usage to store filesystem data is controlled by the spare +area placement functionality which is described in one of the earlier +chapters. + +Tools +===== + +The MTD project provides a couple of helpful tools to handle NAND Flash. + +- flasherase, flasheraseall: Erase and format FLASH partitions + +- nandwrite: write filesystem images to NAND FLASH + +- nanddump: dump the contents of a NAND FLASH partitions + +These tools are aware of the NAND restrictions. Please use those tools +instead of complaining about errors which are caused by non NAND aware +access methods. + +Constants +========= + +This chapter describes the constants which might be relevant for a +driver developer. + +Chip option constants +--------------------- + +Constants for chip id table +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +These constants are defined in nand.h. They are OR-ed together to +describe the chip functionality:: + + /* Buswitdh is 16 bit */ + #define NAND_BUSWIDTH_16 0x00000002 + /* Device supports partial programming without padding */ + #define NAND_NO_PADDING 0x00000004 + /* Chip has cache program function */ + #define NAND_CACHEPRG 0x00000008 + /* Chip has copy back function */ + #define NAND_COPYBACK 0x00000010 + /* AND Chip which has 4 banks and a confusing page / block + * assignment. See Renesas datasheet for further information */ + #define NAND_IS_AND 0x00000020 + /* Chip has a array of 4 pages which can be read without + * additional ready /busy waits */ + #define NAND_4PAGE_ARRAY 0x00000040 + + +Constants for runtime options +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +These constants are defined in nand.h. They are OR-ed together to +describe the functionality:: + + /* The hw ecc generator provides a syndrome instead a ecc value on read + * This can only work if we have the ecc bytes directly behind the + * data bytes. Applies for DOC and AG-AND Renesas HW Reed Solomon generators */ + #define NAND_HWECC_SYNDROME 0x00020000 + + +ECC selection constants +----------------------- + +Use these constants to select the ECC algorithm:: + + /* No ECC. Usage is not recommended ! */ + #define NAND_ECC_NONE 0 + /* Software ECC 3 byte ECC per 256 Byte data */ + #define NAND_ECC_SOFT 1 + /* Hardware ECC 3 byte ECC per 256 Byte data */ + #define NAND_ECC_HW3_256 2 + /* Hardware ECC 3 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ + #define NAND_ECC_HW3_512 3 + /* Hardware ECC 6 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ + #define NAND_ECC_HW6_512 4 + /* Hardware ECC 6 byte ECC per 512 Byte data */ + #define NAND_ECC_HW8_512 6 + + +Hardware control related constants +---------------------------------- + +These constants describe the requested hardware access function when the +boardspecific hardware control function is called:: + + /* Select the chip by setting nCE to low */ + #define NAND_CTL_SETNCE 1 + /* Deselect the chip by setting nCE to high */ + #define NAND_CTL_CLRNCE 2 + /* Select the command latch by setting CLE to high */ + #define NAND_CTL_SETCLE 3 + /* Deselect the command latch by setting CLE to low */ + #define NAND_CTL_CLRCLE 4 + /* Select the address latch by setting ALE to high */ + #define NAND_CTL_SETALE 5 + /* Deselect the address latch by setting ALE to low */ + #define NAND_CTL_CLRALE 6 + /* Set write protection by setting WP to high. Not used! */ + #define NAND_CTL_SETWP 7 + /* Clear write protection by setting WP to low. Not used! */ + #define NAND_CTL_CLRWP 8 + + +Bad block table related constants +--------------------------------- + +These constants describe the options used for bad block table +descriptors:: + + /* Options for the bad block table descriptors */ + + /* The number of bits used per block in the bbt on the device */ + #define NAND_BBT_NRBITS_MSK 0x0000000F + #define NAND_BBT_1BIT 0x00000001 + #define NAND_BBT_2BIT 0x00000002 + #define NAND_BBT_4BIT 0x00000004 + #define NAND_BBT_8BIT 0x00000008 + /* The bad block table is in the last good block of the device */ + #define NAND_BBT_LASTBLOCK 0x00000010 + /* The bbt is at the given page, else we must scan for the bbt */ + #define NAND_BBT_ABSPAGE 0x00000020 + /* bbt is stored per chip on multichip devices */ + #define NAND_BBT_PERCHIP 0x00000080 + /* bbt has a version counter at offset veroffs */ + #define NAND_BBT_VERSION 0x00000100 + /* Create a bbt if none axists */ + #define NAND_BBT_CREATE 0x00000200 + /* Write bbt if necessary */ + #define NAND_BBT_WRITE 0x00001000 + /* Read and write back block contents when writing bbt */ + #define NAND_BBT_SAVECONTENT 0x00002000 + + +Structures +========== + +This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the structures +which are used in the NAND driver and might be relevant for a driver +developer. Each struct member has a short description which is marked +with an [XXX] identifier. See the chapter "Documentation hints" for an +explanation. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/mtd/nand.h + :internal: + +Public Functions Provided +========================= + +This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the NAND kernel +API functions which are exported. Each function has a short description +which is marked with an [XXX] identifier. See the chapter "Documentation +hints" for an explanation. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c + :export: + +Internal Functions Provided +=========================== + +This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the NAND driver +internal functions. Each function has a short description which is +marked with an [XXX] identifier. See the chapter "Documentation hints" +for an explanation. The functions marked with [DEFAULT] might be +relevant for a board driver developer. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bbt.c + :internal: + +Credits +======= + +The following people have contributed to the NAND driver: + +1. Steven J. Hill\ sjhill@realitydiluted.com + +2. David Woodhouse\ dwmw2@infradead.org + +3. Thomas Gleixner\ tglx@linutronix.de + +A lot of users have provided bugfixes, improvements and helping hands +for testing. Thanks a lot. + +The following people have contributed to this document: + +1. Thomas Gleixner\ tglx@linutronix.de diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/rapidio.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/rapidio.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..71ff658ab78e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/rapidio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +======================= +RapidIO Subsystem Guide +======================= + +:Author: Matt Porter + +Introduction +============ + +RapidIO is a high speed switched fabric interconnect with features aimed +at the embedded market. RapidIO provides support for memory-mapped I/O +as well as message-based transactions over the switched fabric network. +RapidIO has a standardized discovery mechanism not unlike the PCI bus +standard that allows simple detection of devices in a network. + +This documentation is provided for developers intending to support +RapidIO on new architectures, write new drivers, or to understand the +subsystem internals. + +Known Bugs and Limitations +========================== + +Bugs +---- + +None. ;) + +Limitations +----------- + +1. Access/management of RapidIO memory regions is not supported + +2. Multiple host enumeration is not supported + +RapidIO driver interface +======================== + +Drivers are provided a set of calls in order to interface with the +subsystem to gather info on devices, request/map memory region +resources, and manage mailboxes/doorbells. + +Functions +--------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rio_drv.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio-driver.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio.c + :export: + +Internals +========= + +This chapter contains the autogenerated documentation of the RapidIO +subsystem. + +Structures +---------- + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/rio.h + :internal: + +Enumeration and Discovery +------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c + :internal: + +Driver functionality +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio.c + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio-access.c + :internal: + +Device model support +-------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/rapidio/rio-driver.c + :internal: + +PPC32 support +------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c + :internal: + +Credits +======= + +The following people have contributed to the RapidIO subsystem directly +or indirectly: + +1. Matt Porter\ mporter@kernel.crashing.org + +2. Randy Vinson\ rvinson@mvista.com + +3. Dan Malek\ dan@embeddedalley.com + +The following people have contributed to this document: + +1. Matt Porter\ mporter@kernel.crashing.org diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7060da136095 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/s390-drivers.rst @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +=================================== +Writing s390 channel device drivers +=================================== + +:Author: Cornelia Huck + +Introduction +============ + +This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that +drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces +for interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with +the common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common +I/O layer. + +The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated +with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this +architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of +Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832. + +While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the +channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods +(like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document. + +Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source under +Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. + +The ccw bus +=========== + +The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to a +s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic +command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains +so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O +subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for +channel-attached devices, however, will never interact with the +subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus, the ccw +device. + +I/O functions for channel-attached devices +------------------------------------------ + +Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use +by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on the +hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles of +Operation. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/cio.h + :internal: + +ccw devices +----------- + +Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus. +Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which +provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers. + +The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a ccw +device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions or +strange side effects may happen. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c + :export: + +The channel-measurement facility +-------------------------------- + +The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect measurement +data which is made available by the channel subsystem for each channel +attached device. + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/cmb.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/cmf.c + :export: + +The ccwgroup bus +================ + +The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user. +Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several ccw +devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The ccwgroup bus +provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which contains those ccw +devices as slave devices and can be associated with the netdevice. + +ccw group devices +----------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: arch/s390/include/asm/ccwgroup.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c + :export: + +Generic interfaces +================== + +Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily +have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are +indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer. One +example is the support for adapter interrupts. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/s390/cio/airq.c + :export: diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/scsi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/scsi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..859fb672319f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/scsi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,344 @@ +===================== +SCSI Interfaces Guide +===================== + +:Author: James Bottomley +:Author: Rob Landley + +Introduction +============ + +Protocol vs bus +--------------- + +Once upon a time, the Small Computer Systems Interface defined both a +parallel I/O bus and a data protocol to connect a wide variety of +peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, modems, printers, scanners, +optical drives, test equipment, and medical devices) to a host computer. + +Although the old parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI bus has largely fallen +out of use, the SCSI command set is more widely used than ever to +communicate with devices over a number of different busses. + +The `SCSI protocol <http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm>`__ is a big-endian +peer-to-peer packet based protocol. SCSI commands are 6, 10, 12, or 16 +bytes long, often followed by an associated data payload. + +SCSI commands can be transported over just about any kind of bus, and +are the default protocol for storage devices attached to USB, SATA, SAS, +Fibre Channel, FireWire, and ATAPI devices. SCSI packets are also +commonly exchanged over Infiniband, +`I20 <http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/faq.php>`__, TCP/IP +(`iSCSI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI>`__), even `Parallel +ports <http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/parscsi.html>`__. + +Design of the Linux SCSI subsystem +---------------------------------- + +The SCSI subsystem uses a three layer design, with upper, mid, and low +layers. Every operation involving the SCSI subsystem (such as reading a +sector from a disk) uses one driver at each of the 3 levels: one upper +layer driver, one lower layer driver, and the SCSI midlayer. + +The SCSI upper layer provides the interface between userspace and the +kernel, in the form of block and char device nodes for I/O and ioctl(). +The SCSI lower layer contains drivers for specific hardware devices. + +In between is the SCSI mid-layer, analogous to a network routing layer +such as the IPv4 stack. The SCSI mid-layer routes a packet based data +protocol between the upper layer's /dev nodes and the corresponding +devices in the lower layer. It manages command queues, provides error +handling and power management functions, and responds to ioctl() +requests. + +SCSI upper layer +================ + +The upper layer supports the user-kernel interface by providing device +nodes. + +sd (SCSI Disk) +-------------- + +sd (sd_mod.o) + +sr (SCSI CD-ROM) +---------------- + +sr (sr_mod.o) + +st (SCSI Tape) +-------------- + +st (st.o) + +sg (SCSI Generic) +----------------- + +sg (sg.o) + +ch (SCSI Media Changer) +----------------------- + +ch (ch.c) + +SCSI mid layer +============== + +SCSI midlayer implementation +---------------------------- + +include/scsi/scsi_device.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/scsi/scsi_device.h + :internal: + +drivers/scsi/scsi.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Main file for the SCSI midlayer. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsicam.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +`SCSI Common Access +Method <http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/cam/cam-r12b.pdf>`__ support +functions, for use with HDIO_GETGEO, etc. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsicam.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Common SCSI error/timeout handling routines. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Manage scsi_dev_info_list, which tracks blacklisted and whitelisted +devices. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c + :internal: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Handle ioctl() calls for SCSI devices. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +SCSI queuing library. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +SCSI library functions depending on DMA (map and unmap scatter-gather +lists). + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c contains legacy support for +old-style host templates. It should never be used by any new driver. + +drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The functions in this file provide an interface between the PROC file +system and the SCSI device drivers It is mainly used for debugging, +statistics and to pass information directly to the lowlevel driver. I.E. +plumbing to manage /proc/scsi/\* + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c + :internal: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Infrastructure to provide async events from transports to userspace via +netlink, using a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol for all +transports. See `the original patch +submission <http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=115507374832500&w=2>`__ for +more details. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c + :internal: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Scan a host to determine which (if any) devices are attached. The +general scanning/probing algorithm is as follows, exceptions are made to +it depending on device specific flags, compilation options, and global +variable (boot or module load time) settings. A specific LUN is scanned +via an INQUIRY command; if the LUN has a device attached, a scsi_device +is allocated and setup for it. For every id of every channel on the +given host, start by scanning LUN 0. Skip hosts that don't respond at +all to a scan of LUN 0. Otherwise, if LUN 0 has a device attached, +allocate and setup a scsi_device for it. If target is SCSI-3 or up, +issue a REPORT LUN, and scan all of the LUNs returned by the REPORT LUN; +else, sequentially scan LUNs up until some maximum is reached, or a LUN +is seen that cannot have a device attached to it. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c + :internal: + +drivers/scsi/scsi_sysctl.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Set up the sysctl entry: "/dev/scsi/logging_level" +(DEV_SCSI_LOGGING_LEVEL) which sets/returns scsi_logging_level. + +drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +SCSI sysfs interface routines. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/hosts.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/hosts.c + :export: + +drivers/scsi/constants.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/constants.c + :export: + +Transport classes +----------------- + +Transport classes are service libraries for drivers in the SCSI lower +layer, which expose transport attributes in sysfs. + +Fibre Channel transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c defines transport attributes +for Fibre Channel. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c + :export: + +iSCSI transport class +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c defines transport +attributes for the iSCSI class, which sends SCSI packets over TCP/IP +connections. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c + :export: + +Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) transport class +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c defines transport +attributes for Serial Attached SCSI, a variant of SATA aimed at large +high-end systems. + +The SAS transport class contains common code to deal with SAS HBAs, an +aproximated representation of SAS topologies in the driver model, and +various sysfs attributes to expose these topologies and management +interfaces to userspace. + +In addition to the basic SCSI core objects this transport class +introduces two additional intermediate objects: The SAS PHY as +represented by struct sas_phy defines an "outgoing" PHY on a SAS HBA or +Expander, and the SAS remote PHY represented by struct sas_rphy defines +an "incoming" PHY on a SAS Expander or end device. Note that this is +purely a software concept, the underlying hardware for a PHY and a +remote PHY is the exactly the same. + +There is no concept of a SAS port in this code, users can see what PHYs +form a wide port based on the port_identifier attribute, which is the +same for all PHYs in a port. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c + :export: + +SATA transport class +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The SATA transport is handled by libata, which has its own book of +documentation in this directory. + +Parallel SCSI (SPI) transport class +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c defines transport +attributes for traditional (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI busses. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c + :export: + +SCSI RDMA (SRP) transport class +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c defines transport +attributes for SCSI over Remote Direct Memory Access. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c + :export: + +SCSI lower layer +================ + +Host Bus Adapter transport types +-------------------------------- + +Many modern device controllers use the SCSI command set as a protocol to +communicate with their devices through many different types of physical +connections. + +In SCSI language a bus capable of carrying SCSI commands is called a +"transport", and a controller connecting to such a bus is called a "host +bus adapter" (HBA). + +Debug transport +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The file drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c simulates a host adapter with a +variable number of disks (or disk like devices) attached, sharing a +common amount of RAM. Does a lot of checking to make sure that we are +not getting blocks mixed up, and panics the kernel if anything out of +the ordinary is seen. + +To be more realistic, the simulated devices have the transport +attributes of SAS disks. + +For documentation see http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sdebug26.html + +todo +~~~~ + +Parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI, USB, SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, +FireWire, ATAPI devices, Infiniband, I20, iSCSI, Parallel ports, +netlink... diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/w1.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/w1.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9963cca788a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/w1.rst @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +====================== +W1: Dallas' 1-wire bus +====================== + +:Author: David Fries + +W1 API internal to the kernel +============================= + +W1 API internal to the kernel +----------------------------- + +include/linux/w1.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 kernel API functions. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/w1.h + :internal: + +drivers/w1/w1.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 core functions. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1.c + :internal: + +drivers/w1/w1_family.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Allows registering device family operations. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_family.c + :export: + +drivers/w1/w1_internal.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 internal initialization for master devices. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_internal.h + :internal: + +drivers/w1/w1_int.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 internal initialization for master devices. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_int.c + :export: + +drivers/w1/w1_netlink.h +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 external netlink API structures and commands. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_netlink.h + :internal: + +drivers/w1/w1_io.c +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +W1 input/output. + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_io.c + :export: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/w1/w1_io.c + :internal: |