xref: /illumos-gate/usr/src/man/man9e/mc_getcapab.9e (revision e07d85f87c3920e032adb855fdc500e4616c7718)
1.\"
2.\" This file and its contents are supplied under the terms of the
3.\" Common Development and Distribution License ("CDDL"), version 1.0.
4.\" You may only use this file in accordance with the terms of version
5.\" 1.0 of the CDDL.
6.\"
7.\" A full copy of the text of the CDDL should have accompanied this
8.\" source.  A copy of the CDDL is also available via the Internet at
9.\" http://www.illumos.org/license/CDDL.
10.\"
11.\"
12.\" Copyright 2016 Joyent, Inc.
13.\"
14.Dd June 02, 2016
15.Dt MC_GETCAPAB 9E
16.Os
17.Sh NAME
18.Nm mc_getcapab
19.Nd get device capabilities
20.Sh SYNOPSIS
21.In sys/mac_provider.h
22.Ft boolean_t
23.Fo prefix_m_getcapab
24.Fa "void *driver"
25.Fa "mac_capab_t capab"
26.Fa "void *cap_data"
27.Fc
28.Sh INTERFACE LEVEL
29illumos DDI specific
30.Sh PARAMETERS
31.Bl -tag -width Fa
32.It Fa driver
33A pointer to the driver's private data that was passed in via the
34.Sy m_pdata
35member of the
36.Xr mac_register 9S
37structure to the
38.Xr mac_register 9F
39function.
40.It Fa capab
41A value which indicates the capability being asked about.
42For a full list of capabilities, see the
43.Sx CAPABILITIES
44section of
45.Xr mac 9E .
46.It Fa cap_data
47Capability specific data that may need to be filled in.
48The type of data used is listed in the
49.Sx CAPABILITIES
50section of
51.Xr mac 9E .
52.El
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54The
55.Fn mc_getcapab
56entry point is called to determine whether or not a device supports a
57specific capability.
58The capability in question is specified in
59.Fa capab
60and the list of possible capabilities is listed in the
61.Sx CAPABILITIES
62section of
63.Xr mac 9E .
64.Pp
65Capabilities are generally only queried once for a given device.
66An instance of a device cannot change whether or not it supports a given
67capability after it has been queried by the system.
68.Pp
69Each capability has its own specific kind of data that a device driver
70needs to fill in as part of declaring that it supports a given capability.
71That data is present in
72.Fa cap_data .
73The device driver should cast
74.Fa cap_data
75to the appropriate structure and fill it in.
76The structures to use for a given capability are all listed in the
77.Sx CAPABILITIES
78section of
79.Xr mac 9E .
80.Pp
81The return value is used to indicate whether or not a device driver
82supports the given capability.
83If it does, then the device driver should return
84.Sy B_TRUE
85after filling in
86.Fa cap_data .
87Otherwise, whenever it encounters an unsupported or unknown capability,
88it should return
89.Sy B_FALSE .
90Many device drivers employ
91.Sy switch
92statements and return
93.Sy B_FALSE
94from their default case statement.
95The system will present unknown capabilities to device drivers and they must
96properly return
97.Sy B_FALSE .
98.Pp
99The driver has access to its soft state by casting the
100.Fa driver
101argument to the specific structure.
102The device driver is responsible for any necessary locking.
103.Pp
104Many capabilities are related to features of hardware.
105However, all hardware and firmware has the possibility of having bugs.
106It is recommended that any capability that is supported have some form of
107tunable, whether in the form of a
108.Sy MAC_PROP_PRIVATE
109driver-specific property and/or a
110.Xr driver.conf 5
111property to disable it.
112This way when problems are discovered in the field, they can be worked around
113without requiring initial changes to the device driver.
114.Sh CONTEXT
115This function is generally only called from
116.Sy kernel
117context.
118.Sh RETURN VALUES
119If the device driver supports the specified capability
120.Fa capab ,
121then it should return
122.Sy B_TRUE .
123Otherwise, it should return
124.Sy B_FALSE .
125.Sh EXAMPLES
126The following example shows how a driver might structure its
127.Fn mc_getcapab
128entry point.
129.Bd -literal
130#include <sys/types.h>
131#include <sys/mac_provider.h>
132
133/*
134 * Note, this example merely shows the structure of the function. For
135 * the purpose of this example, we assume that we have a device which
136 * has members that indicate whether the various capabilities have been
137 * enabled and that they are read-only after the driver has had its
138 * mc_start(9F) entry point called.
139 */
140
141#define	EXAMPLE_LSO_MAX		65535
142
143static boolean_t
144example_m_getcapab(void *arg, mac_capab_t cap, void *cap_data)
145{
146	example_t *ep = arg;
147
148	switch (cap) {
149	case MAC_CAPAB_HCKSUM: {
150		uint32_t *txflags = cap_data;
151
152		/*
153		 * The actual flags used here should be replaced with
154		 * what the device actually supports. If the device
155		 * doesn't support checksums, then this case statement
156		 * shouldn't exist.
157		 */
158		*txflags = 0;
159		if (ep->ep_tx_hcksum_enable == B_TRUE)
160			*txflags = HCKSUM_IPHDRCKSUM;
161		break;
162	}
163
164	case MAC_CAPAB_LSO: {
165		mac_capab_lso_t *lso = cap_data;
166
167		if (ep->ep_lso_enable == B_TRUE) {
168			lso->lso_flags = LSO_TX_BASIC_TCP_IPV4;
169			lso->lso_basic_tcp_ipv4.lso_max = EXAMPLE_LSO_MAX;
170		} else {
171			return (B_FALSE);
172		}
173		break;
174	}
175
176	default:
177		return (B_FALSE);
178	}
179
180	return (B_TRUE);
181}
182.Ed
183.Sh SEE ALSO
184.Xr mac 9E ,
185.Xr mac_register 9F ,
186.Xr mac_register 9S
187