Commit 8ae20054 authored by Maximilian Luz's avatar Maximilian Luz Committed by Hans de Goede

docs: driver-api: Update Surface Aggregator user-space interface documentation

Update the controller-device user-space interface (cdev) documentation
for the newly introduced IOCTLs and event interface.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210604134755.535590-8-luzmaximilian@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
parent cbd224e0
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
.. |u8| replace:: :c:type:`u8 <u8>`
.. |u16| replace:: :c:type:`u16 <u16>`
.. |ssam_cdev_request| replace:: :c:type:`struct ssam_cdev_request <ssam_cdev_request>`
.. |ssam_cdev_request_flags| replace:: :c:type:`enum ssam_cdev_request_flags <ssam_cdev_request_flags>`
.. |ssam_cdev_event| replace:: :c:type:`struct ssam_cdev_event <ssam_cdev_event>`
==============================
User-Space EC Interface (cdev)
......@@ -23,6 +22,40 @@ These IOCTLs and their respective input/output parameter structs are defined in
A small python library and scripts for accessing this interface can be found
at https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-aggregator-module/tree/master/scripts/ssam.
.. contents::
Receiving Events
================
Events can be received by reading from the device-file. The are represented by
the |ssam_cdev_event| datatype.
Before events are available to be read, however, the desired notifiers must be
registered via the ``SSAM_CDEV_NOTIF_REGISTER`` IOCTL. Notifiers are, in
essence, callbacks, called when the EC sends an event. They are, in this
interface, associated with a specific target category and device-file-instance.
They forward any event of this category to the buffer of the corresponding
instance, from which it can then be read.
Notifiers themselves do not enable events on the EC. Thus, it may additionally
be necessary to enable events via the ``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_ENABLE`` IOCTL. While
notifiers work per-client (i.e. per-device-file-instance), events are enabled
globally, for the EC and all of its clients (regardless of userspace or
non-userspace). The ``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_ENABLE`` and ``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_DISABLE``
IOCTLs take care of reference counting the events, such that an event is
enabled as long as there is a client that has requested it.
Note that enabled events are not automatically disabled once the client
instance is closed. Therefore any client process (or group of processes) should
balance their event enable calls with the corresponding event disable calls. It
is, however, perfectly valid to enable and disable events on different client
instances. For example, it is valid to set up notifiers and read events on
client instance ``A``, enable those events on instance ``B`` (note that these
will also be received by A since events are enabled/disabled globally), and
after no more events are desired, disable the previously enabled events via
instance ``C``.
Controller IOCTLs
=================
......@@ -45,9 +78,33 @@ The following IOCTLs are provided:
- ``REQUEST``
- Perform synchronous SAM request.
* - ``0xA5``
- ``2``
- ``W``
- ``NOTIF_REGISTER``
- Register event notifier.
``REQUEST``
-----------
* - ``0xA5``
- ``3``
- ``W``
- ``NOTIF_UNREGISTER``
- Unregister event notifier.
* - ``0xA5``
- ``4``
- ``W``
- ``EVENT_ENABLE``
- Enable event source.
* - ``0xA5``
- ``5``
- ``W``
- ``EVENT_DISABLE``
- Disable event source.
``SSAM_CDEV_REQUEST``
---------------------
Defined as ``_IOWR(0xA5, 1, struct ssam_cdev_request)``.
......@@ -82,6 +139,66 @@ submitted, and completed (i.e. handed back to user-space) successfully from
inside the IOCTL, but the request ``status`` member may still be negative in
case the actual execution of the request failed after it has been submitted.
A full definition of the argument struct is provided below:
A full definition of the argument struct is provided below.
``SSAM_CDEV_NOTIF_REGISTER``
----------------------------
Defined as ``_IOW(0xA5, 2, struct ssam_cdev_notifier_desc)``.
Register a notifier for the event target category specified in the given
notifier description with the specified priority. Notifiers registration is
required to receive events, but does not enable events themselves. After a
notifier for a specific target category has been registered, all events of that
category will be forwarded to the userspace client and can then be read from
the device file instance. Note that events may have to be enabled, e.g. via the
``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_ENABLE`` IOCTL, before the EC will send them.
Only one notifier can be registered per target category and client instance. If
a notifier has already been registered, this IOCTL will fail with ``-EEXIST``.
Notifiers will automatically be removed when the device file instance is
closed.
``SSAM_CDEV_NOTIF_UNREGISTER``
------------------------------
Defined as ``_IOW(0xA5, 3, struct ssam_cdev_notifier_desc)``.
Unregisters the notifier associated with the specified target category. The
priority field will be ignored by this IOCTL. If no notifier has been
registered for this client instance and the given category, this IOCTL will
fail with ``-ENOENT``.
``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_ENABLE``
--------------------------
Defined as ``_IOW(0xA5, 4, struct ssam_cdev_event_desc)``.
Enable the event associated with the given event descriptor.
Note that this call will not register a notifier itself, it will only enable
events on the controller. If you want to receive events by reading from the
device file, you will need to register the corresponding notifier(s) on that
instance.
Events are not automatically disabled when the device file is closed. This must
be done manually, via a call to the ``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_DISABLE`` IOCTL.
``SSAM_CDEV_EVENT_DISABLE``
---------------------------
Defined as ``_IOW(0xA5, 5, struct ssam_cdev_event_desc)``.
Disable the event associated with the given event descriptor.
Note that this will not unregister any notifiers. Events may still be received
and forwarded to user-space after this call. The only safe way of stopping
events from being received is unregistering all previously registered
notifiers.
Structures and Enums
====================
.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/surface_aggregator/cdev.h
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