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27.Dd October 31, 2015
28.Dt IOAT 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm I/OAT
32.Nd Intel I/O Acceleration Technology
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into your kernel,
35place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device ioat"
38.Ed
39.Pp
40Or, to load the driver as a module at boot, place the following line in
41.Xr loader.conf 5 :
42.Bd -literal -offset indent
43ioat_load="YES"
44.Ed
45.Pp
46In
47.Xr loader.conf 5 :
48.Pp
49.Cd hw.ioat.force_legacy_interrupts=0
50.Pp
51In
52.Xr loader.conf 5 or
53.Xr sysctl.conf 5 :
54.Pp
55.Cd hw.ioat.enable_ioat_test=0
56.Cd hw.ioat.debug_level=0
57(only critical errors; maximum of 3)
58.Pp
59.Ft typedef void
60.Fn (*bus_dmaengine_callback_t) "void *arg" "int error"
61.Pp
62.Ft bus_dmaengine_t
63.Fn ioat_get_dmaengine "uint32_t channel_index"
64.Ft void
65.Fn ioat_put_dmaengine "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
66.Ft void
67.Fn ioat_acquire "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
68.Ft void
69.Fn ioat_release "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
70.Ft struct bus_dmadesc *
71.Fo ioat_copy
72.Fa "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
73.Fa "bus_addr_t dst"
74.Fa "bus_addr_t src"
75.Fa "bus_size_t len"
76.Fa "bus_dmaengine_callback_t callback_fn"
77.Fa "void *callback_arg"
78.Fa "uint32_t flags"
79.Fc
80.Ft struct bus_dmadesc *
81.Fo ioat_blockfill
82.Fa "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
83.Fa "bus_addr_t dst"
84.Fa "uint64_t fillpattern"
85.Fa "bus_size_t len"
86.Fa "bus_dmaengine_callback_t callback_fn"
87.Fa "void *callback_arg"
88.Fa "uint32_t flags"
89.Fc
90.Ft struct bus_dmadesc *
91.Fo ioat_null
92.Fa "bus_dmaengine_t dmaengine"
93.Fa "bus_dmaengine_callback_t callback_fn"
94.Fa "void *callback_arg"
95.Fa "uint32_t flags"
96.Fc
97.Sh DESCRIPTION
98The
99.Nm
100driver provides a kernel API to a variety of DMA engines on some Intel server
101platforms.
102.Pp
103There is a number of DMA channels per CPU package.
104(Typically 4 or 8.)
105Each may be used independently.
106Operations on a single channel proceed sequentially.
107.Pp
108Blockfill operations can be used to write a 64-bit pattern to memory.
109.Pp
110Copy operations can be used to offload memory copies to the DMA engines.
111.Pp
112Null operations do nothing, but may be used to test the interrupt and callback
113mechanism.
114.Pp
115All operations can optionally trigger an interrupt at completion with the
116.Ar DMA_EN_INT
117flag.
118For example, a user might submit multiple operations to the same channel and
119only enable an interrupt and callback for the last operation.
120.Pp
121All operations are safe to use in a non-blocking context with the
122.Ar DMA_NO_WAIT
123flag.
124(Of course, allocations may fail and operations requested with
125.Ar DMA_NO_WAIT
126may return NULL.)
127.Pp
128All operations, as well as
129.Fn ioat_get_dmaengine ,
130can return NULL in special circumstances.
131For example, if the
132.Nm
133driver is being unloaded, or the administrator has induced a hardware reset, or
134a usage error has resulted in a hardware error state that needs to be recovered
135from.
136.Pp
137It is invalid to attempt to submit new DMA operations in a
138.Fa bus_dmaengine_callback_t
139context.
140.Sh USAGE
141A typical user will lookup the DMA engine object for a given channel with
142.Fn ioat_get_dmaengine .
143When the user wants to offload a copy, they will first
144.Fn ioat_acquire
145the
146.Ar bus_dmaengine_t
147object for exclusive access to enqueue operations on that channel.
148Then, they will submit one or more operations using
149.Fn ioat_blockfill ,
150.Fn ioat_copy ,
151or
152.Fn ioat_null .
153After queueing one or more individual DMA operations, they will
154.Fn ioat_release
155the
156.Ar bus_dmaengine_t
157to drop their exclusive access to the channel.
158The routine they provided for the
159.Fa callback_fn
160argument will be invoked with the provided
161.Fa callback_arg
162when the operation is complete.
163When they are finished with the
164.Ar bus_dmaengine_t ,
165the user should
166.Fn ioat_put_dmaengine .
167.Pp
168Users MUST NOT block between
169.Fn ioat_acquire
170and
171.Fn ioat_release .
172Users SHOULD NOT hold
173.Ar bus_dmaengine_t
174references for a very long time to enable fault recovery and kernel module
175unload.
176.Pp
177For an example of usage, see
178.Pa src/sys/dev/ioat/ioat_test.c .
179.Sh FILES
180.Bl -tag -compat
181.It Pa /dev/ioat_test
182test device for
183.Xr ioatcontrol 8
184.El
185.Sh SEE ALSO
186.Xr ioatcontrol 8
187.Sh HISTORY
188The
189.Nm
190driver first appeared in
191.Fx 11.0 .
192.Sh AUTHORS
193The
194.Nm
195driver was developed by
196.An \&Jim Harris Aq Mt jimharris@FreeBSD.org ,
197.An \&Carl Delsey Aq Mt carl.r.delsey@intel.com ,
198and
199.An \&Conrad Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org .
200This manual page was written by
201.An \&Conrad Meyer Aq Mt cem@FreeBSD.org .
202.Sh CAVEATS
203Copy operation takes bus addresses as parameters, not virtual addresses.
204.Pp
205Buffers for individual copy operations must be physically contiguous.
206.Pp
207Copies larger than max transfer size (1MB, but may vary by hardware) are not
208supported.
209Future versions will likely support this by breaking up the transfer into
210smaller sizes.
211.Sh BUGS
212The
213.Nm
214driver only supports blockfill, copy, and null operations at this time.
215The driver does not yet support advanced DMA modes, such as XOR, that some
216I/OAT devices support.
217