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4AMD HSMP interface
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7Newer Fam19h EPYC server line of processors from AMD support system
8management functionality via HSMP (Host System Management Port).
9
10The Host System Management Port (HSMP) is an interface to provide
11OS-level software with access to system management functions via a
12set of mailbox registers.
13
14More details on the interface can be found in chapter
15"7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the family/model PPR
16Eg: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/programmer-references/55898_B1_pub_0_50.zip
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19HSMP interface is supported on EPYC server CPU models only.
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22HSMP device
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25amd_hsmp driver under the drivers/platforms/x86/ creates miscdevice
26/dev/hsmp to let user space programs run hsmp mailbox commands.
27
28$ ls -al /dev/hsmp
29crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 123 Jan 21 21:41 /dev/hsmp
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31Characteristics of the dev node:
32 * Write mode is used for running set/configure commands
33 * Read mode is used for running get/status monitor commands
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35Access restrictions:
36 * Only root user is allowed to open the file in write mode.
37 * The file can be opened in read mode by all the users.
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39In-kernel integration:
40 * Other subsystems in the kernel can use the exported transport
41   function hsmp_send_message().
42 * Locking across callers is taken care by the driver.
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45HSMP sysfs interface
46====================
47
481. Metrics table binary sysfs
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50AMD MI300A MCM provides GET_METRICS_TABLE message to retrieve
51most of the system management information from SMU in one go.
52
53The metrics table is made available as hexadecimal sysfs binary file
54under per socket sysfs directory created at
55/sys/devices/platform/amd_hsmp/socket%d/metrics_bin
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57Note: lseek() is not supported as entire metrics table is read.
58
59Metrics table definitions will be documented as part of Public PPR.
60The same is defined in the amd_hsmp.h header.
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62
63An example
64==========
65
66To access hsmp device from a C program.
67First, you need to include the headers::
68
69  #include <linux/amd_hsmp.h>
70
71Which defines the supported messages/message IDs.
72
73Next thing, open the device file, as follows::
74
75  int file;
76
77  file = open("/dev/hsmp", O_RDWR);
78  if (file < 0) {
79    /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */
80    exit(1);
81  }
82
83The following IOCTL is defined:
84
85``ioctl(file, HSMP_IOCTL_CMD, struct hsmp_message *msg)``
86  The argument is a pointer to a::
87
88    struct hsmp_message {
89    	__u32	msg_id;				/* Message ID */
90    	__u16	num_args;			/* Number of input argument words in message */
91    	__u16	response_sz;			/* Number of expected output/response words */
92    	__u32	args[HSMP_MAX_MSG_LEN];		/* argument/response buffer */
93    	__u16	sock_ind;			/* socket number */
94    };
95
96The ioctl would return a non-zero on failure; you can read errno to see
97what happened. The transaction returns 0 on success.
98
99More details on the interface and message definitions can be found in chapter
100"7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the respective family/model PPR
101eg: https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/epyc-technical-docs/programmer-references/55898_B1_pub_0_50.zip
102
103User space C-APIs are made available by linking against the esmi library,
104which is provided by the E-SMS project https://www.amd.com/en/developer/e-sms.html.
105See: https://github.com/amd/esmi_ib_library
106