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26.Dd July 8, 2015
27.Dt PCI_IOV_SCHEMA 9
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm pci_iov_schema ,
31.Nm pci_iov_schema_alloc_node ,
32.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_bool ,
33.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_string ,
34.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_uint8 ,
35.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_uint16 ,
36.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_uint32 ,
37.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_uint64 ,
38.Nm pci_iov_schema_add_unicast_mac
39.Nd PCI SR-IOV config schema interface
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.In machine/stdarg.h
42.In sys/nv.h
43.In sys/iov_schema.h
44.Ft nvlist_t *
45.Fn pci_iov_schema_alloc_node "void"
46.Ft void
47.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_bool "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
48"uint32_t flags" "int defaultVal"
49.Ft void
50.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_string "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
51"uint32_t flags" "const char *defaultVal"
52.Ft void
53.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint8 "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
54"uint32_t flags" "uint8_t defaultVal"
55.Ft void
56.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint16 "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
57"uint32_t flags" "uint16_t defaultVal"
58.Ft void
59.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint32 "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
60"uint32_t flags" "uint32_t defaultVal"
61.Ft void
62.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint64 "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
63"uint32_t flags" "uint64_t defaultVal"
64.Ft void
65.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_unicast_mac "nvlist_t *schema" "const char *name" \
66"uint32_t flags" "const uint8_t *defaultVal"
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68The PCI Single-Root I/O Virtualization
69.Pq SR-IOV
70configuration schema is a data
71structure that describes the device-specific configuration parameters that a PF
72driver will accept when SR-IOV is enabled on the PF device.
73Each PF driver defines two schema instances: the PF schema and the VF schema.
74The PF schema describes configuration that applies to the PF device as a whole.
75The VF schema describes configuration that applies to an individual VF device.
76Different VF devices may have different configuration applied to them, as long
77as the configuration for each VF conforms to the VF schema.
78.Pp
79A PF driver builds a configuration schema by first allocating a schema node and
80then adding configuration parameter specifications to the schema.
81The configuration parameter specification consists of a name and a value type.
82.Pp
83Configuration parameter names are case-insensitive.
84It is an error to specify two or more configuration parameters with the same
85name.
86It is also an error to specific a configuration parameter that uses the same
87name as a configuration parameter used by the SR-IOV infrastructure.
88See
89.Xr iovctl.conf 5
90for documentation of all configuration parameters used by the SR-IOV
91infrastructure.
92.Pp
93The parameter type constrains the possible values that the configuration
94parameter may take.
95.Pp
96A configuration parameter may be specified as a required parameter by setting
97the
98.Dv IOV_SCHEMA_REQUIRED
99flag in the
100.Pa flags
101argument.
102Required parameters must be specified by the user when SR-IOV is enabled.
103If the user does not specify a required parameter, the SR-IOV infrastructure
104will abort the request to enable SR-IOV and return an error to the user.
105.Pp
106Alternatively, a configuration parameter may be given a default value by
107setting the
108.Dv IOV_SCHEMA_HASDEFAULT
109flag in the
110.Pa flags
111argument.
112If a configuration parameter has a default value but the user has not specified
113a value for that parameter, then the SR-IOV infrastructure will apply
114.Pa defaultVal
115for that parameter in the configuration before passing it to the PF driver.
116It is an error for the value of the
117.Pa defaultVal
118parameter to not conform to the restrictions of the specified type.
119If this flag is not specified then the
120.Pa defaultVal
121argument is ignored.
122This flag is not compatible with the
123.Dv IOV_SCHEMA_REQUIRED
124flag; it is an error to specify both on the same parameter.
125.Pp
126The SR-IOV infrastructure guarantees that all configuration parameters that are
127either specified as required or given a default value will be present in the
128configuration passed to the PF driver.
129Configuration parameters that are neither specified as required nor given a
130default value are optional and may or may not be present in the configuration
131passed to the PF driver.
132.Pp
133It is highly recommended that a PF driver reserve the use of optional parameters
134for configuration that is truly optional.
135For example, a Network Interface PF device might have the option to encapsulate
136all traffic to and from a VF device in a vlan tag.
137The PF driver could expose that option as a "vlan" parameter accepting an
138integer argument specifying the vlan tag.
139In this case, it would be appropriate to set the "vlan" parameter as an optional
140parameter as it would be legitimate for a VF to be configured to have no vlan
141tagging enabled at all.
142.Pp
143Alternatively, if the PF device had an boolean option that controlled whether
144the VF was allowed to change its MAC address, it would not be appropriate to
145set this parameter as optional.
146The PF driver must either allow the MAC to change or not, so it would be more
147appropriate for the PF driver to document the default behaviour by specifying
148a default value in the schema
149.Po or potentially force the user to make the choice by setting the parameter
150to be required
151.Pc .
152.Pp
153Configuration parameters that have security implications must default to the
154most secure configuration possible.
155.Pp
156All device-specific configuration parameters must be documented in the manual
157page for the PF driver, or in a separate manual page that is cross-referenced
158from the main driver manual page.
159.Pp
160It is not necessary for a PF driver to check for failure from any of these
161functions.
162If an error occurs, it is flagged in the schema.
163The
164.Xr pci_iov_attach 9
165function checks for this error and will fail to initialize SR-IOV on the PF
166device if an error is set in the schema.
167If this occurs, it is recommended that the PF driver still succeed in attaching
168and run with SR-IOV disabled on the device.
169.Pp
170The
171.Fn pci_iov_schema_alloc_node
172function is used to allocate an empty configuration schema.
173It is not necessary to check for failure from this function.
174The SR-IOV infrastructure will gracefully handle failure to allocate a schema
175and will simply not enable SR-IOV on the PF device.
176.Pp
177The
178.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_bool
179function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
180the name
181.Pa name
182and having a boolean type.
183Boolean values can only take the value true or false (1 or 0, respectively).
184.Pp
185The
186.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_string
187function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
188the name
189.Pa name
190and having a string type.
191String values are standard C strings.
192.Pp
193The
194.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint8
195function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
196the name
197.Pa name
198and having a
199.Vt uint8_t
200type.
201Values of type
202.Vt uint8_t
203are unsigned integers in the range 0 to 255, inclusive.
204.Pp
205The
206.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint16
207function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
208the name
209.Pa name
210and having a
211.Vt uint16_t
212type.
213Values of type
214.Vt uint16_t
215are unsigned integers in the range 0 to 65535, inclusive.
216.Pp
217The
218.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint32
219function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
220the name
221.Pa name
222and having a
223.Vt uint32_t
224type.
225Values of type
226.Vt uint32_t
227are unsigned integers in the range 0 to
228.Pq 2**32 - 1 ,
229inclusive.
230.Pp
231The
232.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_uint64
233function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
234the name
235.Pa name
236and having a
237.Vt uint64_t
238type.
239Values of type
240.Vt uint64_t
241are unsigned integers in the range 0 to
242.Pq 2**64 - 1 ,
243inclusive.
244.Pp
245The
246.Fn pci_iov_schema_add_unicast_mac
247function is used to specify a configuration parameter in the given schema with
248the name
249.Pa name
250and having a unicast-mac type.
251Values of type unicast-mac are binary values exactly 6 bytes long.
252The MAC address is guaranteed to not be a multicast or broadcast address.
253.Sh RETURN VALUES
254The
255.Fn pci_iov_schema_alloc_node
256function returns a pointer to the allocated schema, or NULL if a failure occurs.
257.Sh SEE ALSO
258.Xr pci 9 ,
259.Xr PCI_IOV_ADD_VF 9 ,
260.Xr PCI_IOV_INIT 9
261.Sh AUTHORS
262This manual page was written by
263.An Ryan Stone Aq rstone@FreeBSD.org .
264