From 077674922e4f1427b6e31dadc8b89c730adc6b35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rusty Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:25:40 +0000 Subject: Feedback #2: More feedback from Thomas Huth Document: virtio-v1.0-csprd01 Number: 2 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:49:49 +0100 Link to Mail: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/201401/msg00001.html Commenter name: Thomas Huth Approved at meeting 2014-01-28: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio/201401/msg00054.html Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell git-svn-id: https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio@196 0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652 --- content.tex | 38 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'content.tex') diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index 35aa5f8..e5fe9c6 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -801,9 +801,10 @@ any Revision ID value. \subsection{PCI Device Layout}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus / PCI Device Layout} -To configure the device, -use I/O and/or memory regions and/or PCI configuration space of the PCI device. -These contain the virtio header registers, the notification register, the +The device is configured via I/O and/or memory regions (though see +VIRTIO_PCI_CAP_PCI_CFG for access via the PCI configuration space). + +These regions contain the virtio header registers, the notification register, the ISR status register and device specific registers, as specified by Virtio Structure PCI Capabilities. @@ -847,8 +848,7 @@ Common configuration structure layout is documented below: \begin{description} \item[device_feature_select] The driver uses this to select which Feature Bits the device_feature field shows. - Value 0x0 selects Feature Bits 0 to 31 - Value 0x1 selects Feature Bits 32 to 63 + Value 0x0 selects Feature Bits 0 to 31, 0x1 selects Feature Bits 32 to 63. The device MUST present 0 on device_feature for any other value. \item[device_feature] @@ -857,8 +857,7 @@ Common configuration structure layout is documented below: \item[driver_feature_select] The driver uses this to select which Feature Bits the driver_feature field shows. - Value 0x0 selects Feature Bits 0 to 31 - Value 0x1 selects Feature Bits 32 to 63 + Value 0x0 selects Feature Bits 0 to 31, 0x1 selects Feature Bits 32 to 63. When set to any other value, reads from driver_feature return 0, writing 0 into driver_feature has no effect. The driver MUST not write any other value into driver_feature (a corollary of @@ -899,7 +898,7 @@ Common configuration structure layout is documented below: \item[queue_enable] The driver uses this to selectively prevent the device from executing requests from this virtqueue. - 1 - enabled; 0 - disabled + 1 - enabled; 0 - disabled. The driver MUST configure the other virtqueue fields before enabling the virtqueue. @@ -1043,7 +1042,7 @@ read-only: }; \end{lstlisting} -This structure can optionally followed by extra data, depending on +This structure can optionally be followed by extra data, depending on other fields, as documented below. Note that future versions of this specification will likely @@ -1369,10 +1368,13 @@ following sections. \subsection{MMIO Device Discovery}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over MMIO / MMIO Device Discovery} -Unlike PCI, MMIO provides no generic device discovery. For -systems using Flattened Device Trees the suggested format is: +Unlike PCI, MMIO provides no generic device discovery. For each +device, the guest OS will need to know the location of the registers +and interrupt(s) used. The suggested binding for systems using +flattened device trees is shown in this example: \begin{lstlisting} + // EXAMPLE: virtio_block device taking 256 bytes at 0x1e000, interrupt 42. virtio_block@1e000 { compatible = "virtio,mmio"; reg = <0x1e000 0x100>; @@ -1941,7 +1943,7 @@ revision & length & data & remarks \\ \hline \end{tabular} -Note that a change in the virtio standard does not neccessarily +Note that a change in the virtio standard does not necessarily correspond to a change in the virtio-ccw revision. A device MUST post a unit check with command reject for any revision @@ -2037,7 +2039,7 @@ and align the alignment. \subsubsection{Virtqueue Layout}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio over channel I/O / Device Initialization / Virtqueue Layout} -The virtqueue is physically contiguous, with padded added to make the +The virtqueue is physically contiguous, with padding added to make the used ring meet the align value: \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|} @@ -2174,7 +2176,8 @@ summary_indicator contains the guest address of the 8 bit summary indicator. indicator contains the guest address of an area wherin the indicators for the devices are contained, starting at bit_nr, one bit per -virtqueue of the device. Bit numbers start at the left. +virtqueue of the device. Bit numbers start at the left, i.e. the most +significant bit in the first byte is assigned the bit number 0. isc contains the I/O interruption subclass to be used for the adapter I/O interrupt. It may be different from the isc used by the proxy virtio-ccw device's subchannel. @@ -2224,7 +2227,7 @@ host->guest notification about virtqueue activity. For notifying the driver of virtqueue buffers, the device sets the bit in the guest-provided indicator area at the corresponding offset. -The guest-provided summary indicator is also set. An adapter I/O +The guest-provided summary indicator is set to 0x01. An adapter I/O interrupt for the corresponding interruption subclass is generated. The device SHOULD only generate an adapter I/O interrupt if the summary indicator had not been set prior to notification. The driver @@ -2273,11 +2276,6 @@ should be passed in GPR4 for the next notification: info->cookie); \end{lstlisting} -\subsubsection{Early printk for Virtio Consoles}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio over channel I/O / Device Operation / Early printk for Virtio Consoles} - -For the early printk mechanism, diagnose 0x500 with subcode 0 is -used. - \subsubsection{Resetting Devices}\label{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio over channel I/O / Device Operation / Resetting Devices} In order to reset a device, a driver sends the -- cgit v1.2.3