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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-16 21:15:56 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-16 21:15:56 -0700 |
| commit | 87fe97a184c000a3941e2b53671742993abb1ddc (patch) | |
| tree | 20856c2d2eec316b6eb472f2b9cbf30612d5e809 /Documentation/userspace-api | |
| parent | 8242c709d4ba858c483ef7ef3cc2dc1280f5383c (diff) | |
| parent | a55f80233f384dc89ef3425b2e1dd0e6d44bcf29 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fwctl/fwctl
Pull fwctl updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
- New fwctl driver for Broadcom RDMA NICs
- Bug fix for non-modular builds
* tag 'for-linus-fwctl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fwctl/fwctl:
fwctl: Fix class init ordering to avoid NULL pointer dereference on device removal
fwctl/bnxt_fwctl: Add documentation entries
fwctl/bnxt_fwctl: Add bnxt fwctl device
fwctl/bnxt_en: Create an aux device for fwctl
fwctl/bnxt_en: Refactor aux bus functions to be more generic
fwctl/bnxt_en: Move common definitions to include/linux/bnxt/
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst | 74 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst | 1 |
3 files changed, 76 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..97c9b095cf21 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/bnxt_fwctl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +fwctl bnxt driver +================= + +:Author: Pavan Chebbi + +Overview +======== + +BNXT driver makes a fwctl service available through an auxiliary_device. +The bnxt_fwctl driver binds to this device and registers itself with the +fwctl subsystem. + +The bnxt_fwctl driver is agnostic to the device firmware internals. It +uses the Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) conduit provided by bnxt to send +HardWare Resource Manager (HWRM) commands to firmware. + +These commands can query or change firmware driven device configurations +and read/write registers that are useful for debugging. + +bnxt_fwctl User API +=================== + +Each RPC request contains the HWRM input structure in the fwctl_rpc +'in' buffer while 'out' will contain the response. + +A typical user application can send a FWCTL_INFO command using ioctl() +to discover bnxt_fwctl's RPC capabilities as shown below: + + ioctl(fd, FWCTL_INFO, &fwctl_info_msg); + +where fwctl_info_msg (of type struct fwctl_info) describes bnxt_info_msg +(of type struct fwctl_info_bnxt). fwctl_info_msg is set up as follows: + + size = sizeof(struct fwctl_info); + flags = 0; + device_data_len = sizeof(bnxt_info_msg); + out_device_data = (__aligned_u64)&bnxt_info_msg; + +The uctx_caps of bnxt_info_msg represents the capabilities as described +in fwctl_bnxt_commands of include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h + +The FW RPC itself, FWCTL_RPC can be sent using ioctl() as: + + ioctl(fd, FWCTL_RPC, &fwctl_rpc_msg); + +where fwctl_rpc_msg (of type struct fwctl_rpc) carries the HWRM command +in its 'in' buffer. The HWRM input structures are described in +include/linux/bnxt/hsi.h. An example for HWRM_VER_GET is shown below: + + struct hwrm_ver_get_output resp; + struct fwctl_rpc fwctl_rpc_msg; + struct hwrm_ver_get_input req; + + req.req_type = HWRM_VER_GET; + req.hwrm_intf_maj = HWRM_VERSION_MAJOR; + req.hwrm_intf_min = HWRM_VERSION_MINOR; + req.hwrm_intf_upd = HWRM_VERSION_UPDATE; + req.cmpl_ring = -1; + req.target_id = -1; + + fwctl_rpc_msg.size = sizeof(struct fwctl_rpc); + fwctl_rpc_msg.scope = FWCTL_RPC_DEBUG_READ_ONLY; + fwctl_rpc_msg.in_len = sizeof(req); + fwctl_rpc_msg.out_len = sizeof(resp); + fwctl_rpc_msg.in = (__aligned_u64)&req; + fwctl_rpc_msg.out = (__aligned_u64)&resp; + +An example python3 program that can exercise this interface can be found in +the following git repository: + +https://github.com/Broadcom/fwctl-tools diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst index a74eab8d14c6..826817bfd54d 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/fwctl.rst @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ area resulting in clashes will be resolved in favour of a kernel implementation. fwctl User API ============== +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/bnxt.h .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/fwctl.h .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/mlx5.h .. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/fwctl/pds.h diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst index 316ac456ad3b..8062f7629654 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/fwctl/index.rst @@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ to securely construct and execute RPCs inside device firmware. :maxdepth: 1 fwctl + bnxt_fwctl fwctl-cxl pds_fwctl |
