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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> 4 5 <book id="s390drivers"> 6 <bookinfo> 7 <title>Writing s390 channel device drivers</title> 8 9 <authorgroup> 10 <author> 11 <firstname>Cornelia</firstname> 12 <surname>Huck</surname> 13 <affiliation> 14 <address> 15 <email>cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com</email> 16 </address> 17 </affiliation> 18 </author> 19 </authorgroup> 20 21 <copyright> 22 <year>2007</year> 23 <holder>IBM Corp.</holder> 24 </copyright> 25 26 <legalnotice> 27 <para> 28 This documentation is free software; you can redistribute 29 it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public 30 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either 31 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later 32 version. 33 </para> 34 35 <para> 36 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be 37 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 38 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 39 See the GNU General Public License for more details. 40 </para> 41 42 <para> 43 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 44 License along with this program; if not, write to the Free 45 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 46 MA 02111-1307 USA 47 </para> 48 49 <para> 50 For more details see the file COPYING in the source 51 distribution of Linux. 52 </para> 53 </legalnotice> 54 </bookinfo> 55 56 <toc></toc> 57 58 <chapter id="intro"> 59 <title>Introduction</title> 60 <para> 61 This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that 62 drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces for 63 interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the 64 common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O 65 layer. 66 </para> 67 <para> 68 The document assumes a familarity with the technical terms associated 69 with the s390 channel I/O architecture. For a description of this 70 architecture, please refer to the "z/Architecture: Principles of 71 Operation", IBM publication no. SA22-7832. 72 </para> 73 <para> 74 While most I/O devices on a s390 system are typically driven through the 75 channel I/O mechanism described here, there are various other methods 76 (like the diag interface). These are out of the scope of this document. 77 </para> 78 <para> 79 Some additional information can also be found in the kernel source 80 under Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt. 81 </para> 82 </chapter> 83 <chapter id="ccw"> 84 <title>The ccw bus</title> 85 <para> 86 The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to 87 a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic 88 command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains 89 so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O 90 subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for 91 channel-attached devices, however, will never interact with the 92 subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus, 93 the ccw device. 94 </para> 95 <sect1 id="channelIO"> 96 <title>I/O functions for channel-attached devices</title> 97 <para> 98 Some hardware structures have been translated into C structures for use 99 by the common I/O layer and device drivers. For more information on 100 the hardware structures represented here, please consult the Principles 101 of Operation. 102 </para> 103 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/cio.h 104 </sect1> 105 <sect1 id="ccwdev"> 106 <title>ccw devices</title> 107 <para> 108 Devices that want to initiate channel I/O need to attach to the ccw bus. 109 Interaction with the driver core is done via the common I/O layer, which 110 provides the abstractions of ccw devices and ccw device drivers. 111 </para> 112 <para> 113 The functions that initiate or terminate channel I/O all act upon a 114 ccw device structure. Device drivers must not bypass those functions 115 or strange side effects may happen. 116 </para> 117 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/ccwdev.h 118 !Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c 119 !Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c 120 </sect1> 121 <sect1 id="cmf"> 122 <title>The channel-measurement facility</title> 123 <para> 124 The channel-measurement facility provides a means to collect 125 measurement data which is made available by the channel subsystem 126 for each channel attached device. 127 </para> 128 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/cmb.h 129 !Edrivers/s390/cio/cmf.c 130 </sect1> 131 </chapter> 132 133 <chapter id="ccwgroup"> 134 <title>The ccwgroup bus</title> 135 <para> 136 The ccwgroup bus only contains artificial devices, created by the user. 137 Many networking devices (e.g. qeth) are in fact composed of several 138 ccw devices (like read, write and data channel for qeth). The 139 ccwgroup bus provides a mechanism to create a meta-device which 140 contains those ccw devices as slave devices and can be associated 141 with the netdevice. 142 </para> 143 <sect1 id="ccwgroupdevices"> 144 <title>ccw group devices</title> 145 !Iarch/s390/include/asm/ccwgroup.h 146 !Edrivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c 147 </sect1> 148 </chapter> 149 150 <chapter id="genericinterfaces"> 151 <title>Generic interfaces</title> 152 <para> 153 Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily 154 have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are 155 indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer. 156 One example is the support for adapter interrupts. 157 </para> 158 !Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c 159 </chapter> 160 161 </book>