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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/PCI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index c55df2911136..cd9c9f6a7cd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -94,14 +94,11 @@ has a requirements for a minimum number of vectors the driver can pass a min_vecs argument set to this limit, and the PCI core will return -ENOSPC if it can't meet the minimum number of vectors. -The flags argument should normally be set to 0, but can be used to pass the -PCI_IRQ_NOMSI and PCI_IRQ_NOMSIX flag in case a device claims to support -MSI or MSI-X, but the support is broken, or to pass PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY in -case the device does not support legacy interrupt lines. - -By default this function will spread the interrupts around the available -CPUs, but this feature can be disabled by passing the PCI_IRQ_NOAFFINITY -flag. +The flags argument is used to specify which type of interrupt can be used +by the device and the driver (PCI_IRQ_LEGACY, PCI_IRQ_MSI, PCI_IRQ_MSIX). +A convenient short-hand (PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES) is also available to ask for +any possible kind of interrupt. If the PCI_IRQ_AFFINITY flag is set, +pci_alloc_irq_vectors() will spread the interrupts around the available CPUs. To get the Linux IRQ numbers passed to request_irq() and free_irq() and the vectors, use the following function: @@ -131,7 +128,7 @@ larger than the number supported by the device it will automatically be capped to the supported limit, so there is no need to query the number of vectors supported beforehand: - nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, 0); + nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES) if (nvec < 0) goto out_err; @@ -140,7 +137,7 @@ interrupts it can request a particular number of interrupts by passing that number to pci_alloc_irq_vectors() function as both 'min_vecs' and 'max_vecs' parameters: - ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, nvec, nvec, 0); + ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, nvec, nvec, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES); if (ret < 0) goto out_err; @@ -148,15 +145,14 @@ The most notorious example of the request type described above is enabling the single MSI mode for a device. It could be done by passing two 1s as 'min_vecs' and 'max_vecs': - ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, 0); + ret = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, 1, PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES); if (ret < 0) goto out_err; Some devices might not support using legacy line interrupts, in which case -the PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY flag can be used to fail the request if the platform -can't provide MSI or MSI-X interrupts: +the driver can specify that only MSI or MSI-X is acceptable: - nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_NOLEGACY); + nvec = pci_alloc_irq_vectors(pdev, 1, nvec, PCI_IRQ_MSI | PCI_IRQ_MSIX); if (nvec < 0) goto out_err; |