[PATCH v4 5/5] qemu: add documentation to qfw.h

Asherah Connor ashe at kivikakk.ee
Wed Feb 24 04:23:24 CET 2021


Also rename a "length" to "size" for consistency with the rest of qfw.

Signed-off-by: Asherah Connor <ashe at kivikakk.ee>
---

(no changes since v1)

 drivers/misc/qfw.c |  6 ++--
 include/qfw.h      | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/qfw.c b/drivers/misc/qfw.c
index b0c82e2098..3e8c1a9cda 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/qfw.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/qfw.c
@@ -283,14 +283,14 @@ static void qfw_read_entry_dma(struct qfw_dev *qdev, u16 entry, u32 size,
 	ops->read_entry_dma(qdev->dev, &dma);
 }
 
-void qfw_read_entry(struct udevice *dev, u16 entry, u32 length, void *address)
+void qfw_read_entry(struct udevice *dev, u16 entry, u32 size, void *address)
 {
 	struct qfw_dev *qdev = dev_get_uclass_priv(dev);
 
 	if (qdev->dma_present)
-		qfw_read_entry_dma(qdev, entry, length, address);
+		qfw_read_entry_dma(qdev, entry, size, address);
 	else
-		qfw_read_entry_io(qdev, entry, length, address);
+		qfw_read_entry_io(qdev, entry, size, address);
 }
 
 int qfw_register(struct udevice *dev)
diff --git a/include/qfw.h b/include/qfw.h
index 41d4db08d6..d59c71a5dd 100644
--- a/include/qfw.h
+++ b/include/qfw.h
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 #include <linux/list.h>
 
+/*
+ * List of firmware configuration item selectors. The official source of truth
+ * for these is the QEMU source itself; see
+ * https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
+ */
 enum {
 	FW_CFG_SIGNATURE	= 0x00,
 	FW_CFG_ID		= 0x01,
@@ -66,8 +71,10 @@ enum {
 #define FW_CFG_DMA_SKIP	(1 << 2)
 #define FW_CFG_DMA_SELECT	(1 << 3)
 
+/* Bit set in FW_CFG_ID response to indicate DMA interface availability. */
 #define FW_CFG_DMA_ENABLED	(1 << 1)
 
+/* Structs read from FW_CFG_FILE_DIR. */
 struct fw_cfg_file {
 	__be32 size;
 	__be16 select;
@@ -134,27 +141,56 @@ struct bios_linker_entry {
 	};
 } __packed;
 
+/* DMA transfer control data between UCLASS_QFW and QEMU. */
 struct qfw_dma {
 	__be32 control;
 	__be32 length;
 	__be64 address;
 };
 
+/* uclass per-device configuration information */
 struct qfw_dev {
-	struct udevice *dev;
-	bool dma_present;
-	struct list_head fw_list;
+	struct udevice *dev;		/* Transport device */
+	bool dma_present;		/* DMA interface usable? */
+	struct list_head fw_list;	/* Cached firmware file list */
 };
 
+/* Ops used internally between UCLASS_QFW and its driver implementations. */
 struct dm_qfw_ops {
+	/**
+	 * read_entry_io() - Read a firmware config entry using the regular
+	 * IO interface for the platform (either PIO or MMIO)
+	 *
+	 * Supply FW_CFG_INVALID as the entry to continue a previous read.  In
+	 * this case, no selector will be issued before reading.
+	 *
+	 * @dev: Device to use
+	 * @entry: Firmware config entry number (e.g. FW_CFG_SIGNATURE)
+	 * @size: Number of bytes to read
+	 * @address: Target location for read
+	 */
 	void (*read_entry_io)(struct udevice *dev, u16 entry, u32 size,
 			      void *address);
+
+	/**
+	 * read_entry_dma() - Read a firmware config entry using the DMA
+	 * interface
+	 *
+	 * Supply FW_CFG_INVALID as the entry to continue a previous read.  In
+	 * this case, no selector will be issued before reading.
+	 *
+	 * This method assumes DMA availability has already been confirmed.
+	 *
+	 * @dev: Device to use
+	 * @dma: DMA transfer control struct
+	 */
 	void (*read_entry_dma)(struct udevice *dev, struct qfw_dma *dma);
 };
 
 #define dm_qfw_get_ops(dev) \
 		((struct dm_qfw_ops *)(dev)->driver->ops)
 
+/* Used internally by driver implementations on successful probe. */
 int qfw_register(struct udevice *dev);
 
 struct udevice;
@@ -168,8 +204,37 @@ struct udevice;
  */
 int qfw_get_dev(struct udevice **devp);
 
-void qfw_read_entry(struct udevice *dev, u16 entry, u32 length, void *address);
+/**
+ * Read a QEMU firmware config entry
+ *
+ * The appropriate transport and interface will be selected automatically.
+ *
+ * @dev: Device to use
+ * @entry: Firmware config entry number (e.g. FW_CFG_SIGNATURE)
+ * @size: Number of bytes to read
+ * @address: Target location for read
+ */
+void qfw_read_entry(struct udevice *dev, u16 entry, u32 size, void *address);
+
+/**
+ * Reads the QEMU firmware config file list, for later use with qfw_find_file.
+ *
+ * If the list has already been read, returns 0 (success).
+ *
+ * @dev: Device to use
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success, -ENOMEM if unable to allocate.
+ */
 int qfw_read_firmware_list(struct udevice *dev);
+
+/**
+ * Finds a file by name in the QEMU firmware config file list.
+ *
+ * @dev: Device to use
+ * @name: Name of file to locate (e.g. "etc/table-loader")
+ *
+ * @return pointer to fw_file struct if found, NULL if not present.
+ */
 struct fw_file *qfw_find_file(struct udevice *dev, const char *name);
 
 /**
@@ -179,7 +244,18 @@ struct fw_file *qfw_find_file(struct udevice *dev, const char *name);
  */
 int qfw_online_cpus(struct udevice *dev);
 
-/* helper functions to iterate firmware file list */
+/**
+ * Helper functions to iterate firmware file list. Suggested use:
+ *
+ * struct fw_cfg_file_iter iter;
+ * struct fw_file *file;
+ *
+ * for (file = qfw_file_iter_init(dev, &iter);
+ *      !qfw_file_iter_end(&iter);
+ *      file = qfw_file_iter_next(&iter)) {
+ *         // use `file'
+ * }
+ */
 struct fw_file *qfw_file_iter_init(struct udevice *dev,
 				   struct fw_cfg_file_iter *iter);
 struct fw_file *qfw_file_iter_next(struct fw_cfg_file_iter *iter);
-- 
2.20.1



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