SchOS/include/dev/pciuser.h
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README: rewritten around what runs (Linux software, Xorg, apk, Linux's drivers), the honest gaps, measured numbers.
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(wayland) are gone, their content lives in architecture/; roadmap.md is only what is still open.
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EVRhxi9zpdW2uDUN4FVcao
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
//
// /dev/pci -- device access from userspace.
//
// docs/architecture/devices.md, mechanisms 2 and 4: MMIO and DMA to a process. This is
// the interface a driver that does not live in the kernel talks to, and it is
// deliberately about *PCI devices*, not about any particular driver model.
//
// That generality is the point, and it is worth being explicit about why.
// The first users of this will be SchOS's own drivers, evicted one at a time
// -- virtio-gpu, then xHCI -- and the interface has to be judged by them.
// Something that hosts foreign drivers later is then a consumer of a general
// mechanism rather than a hole shaped like one, which is both the honest
// design and the only one that stays honest under examination.
//
// What a driver needs from a kernel, and all it needs:
//
// - to find its device, and read what the bus says about it INFO
// - to be given it, exclusively CLAIM
// - to reach its registers mmap(BAR)
// - memory it can hand to the device DMA
// - to be told when the device wants attention IRQ + read()
//
// There is no IOMMU. A process holding a DMA buffer can point the device at
// any physical address, so this isolates a driver against its own *bugs* and
// not against its own *intent*. docs/architecture/devices.md says so at length and it
// remains true here: a crashed driver that restarts instead of taking the
// machine down is the whole benefit, and it is not a security boundary.
#ifndef PCIUSER_H
#define PCIUSER_H
#define PCIUSER_MAJOR 9
#define PCIUSER_MAXBAR 6
struct pciuser_bar {
unsigned long long base; // physical address, 0 when the BAR is unused
unsigned long long size;
unsigned int flags; // PCIUSER_BAR_*
unsigned int pad;
};
#define PCIUSER_BAR_MMIO 0x01 // memory space; mappable
#define PCIUSER_BAR_IO 0x02 // I/O port space; not mappable
#define PCIUSER_BAR_PREFETCH 0x04
// One device, as the bus describes it. `index` is the only field the caller
// fills in; everything else comes back.
struct pciuser_info {
unsigned int index; // in: 0 .. PCIIOC_COUNT-1
unsigned char bus, slot, func;
unsigned char header_type;
unsigned short vendor, device;
unsigned char class, subclass, prog_if, revision;
unsigned char irq; // interrupt line, 0xFF when unrouted
unsigned char claimed; // 1 when a userspace process holds it
unsigned short pad;
// The name of whatever owns it: an in-kernel driver, "userspace" when a
// process has claimed it, or empty when nothing has.
char driver[16];
struct pciuser_bar bar[PCIUSER_MAXBAR];
};
// A DMA buffer. The kernel allocates it from the DMA arena, maps it into the
// caller, and reports the physical address the *device* must be given -- which
// is the entire reason a driver cannot do this for itself with mmap.
// A dword of PCI configuration space. A virtio device says where its registers
// live in vendor capabilities, which are here and nowhere else -- so without
// this a driver cannot find its own device.
struct pciuser_cfg {
unsigned int index; // in
unsigned int offset; // in: dword-aligned, 0..0xFC
unsigned int value; // out
unsigned int pad;
};
struct pciuser_dma {
unsigned long long size; // in: bytes, rounded up to a page
unsigned long long uaddr; // out: where it landed in this process
unsigned long long paddr; // out: what to program into the device
};
#define PCIIOC_COUNT 0x9000 // out: int, how many devices the bus has
#define PCIIOC_INFO 0x9001 // struct pciuser_info
#define PCIIOC_CLAIM 0x9002 // in: int index -- take it from the kernel
#define PCIIOC_RELEASE 0x9003 // in: int index
#define PCIIOC_DMA 0x9004 // struct pciuser_dma
#define PCIIOC_CFG 0x9006 // struct pciuser_cfg -- read config space
#define PCIIOC_PANICFB 0x9007 // struct pciuser_panicfb -- see below
#define PCIIOC_IRQ 0x9005 // in: int index -- deliver this device's
// interrupts to this process
// Interrupts arrive by *reading* this device, which is how Linux's uio does it
// and for the same reason: a descriptor composes with poll, and a driver that
// stops reading falls behind rather than losing events.
//
// ioctl(fd, PCIIOC_IRQ, &index);
// for (;;) {
// unsigned long long n;
// read(fd, &n, sizeof n); // blocks until the device interrupts
// ... service the device, and ACK IT AT THE DEVICE ...
// write(fd, &n, sizeof n); // re-arm
// }
//
// **The write is not optional.** A PCI interrupt line is level-triggered: it
// stays asserted until the driver clears the cause *at the device*, and the
// kernel cannot do that because clearing it is device-specific -- it is a
// different register on every chip. So the kernel masks the line when the
// interrupt arrives and leaves it masked until the write says the device has
// been dealt with.
//
// Without that, EOI is signalled on a line that is still asserted and the
// interrupt re-fires immediately, for ever. That is not hypothetical: it
// happened in this kernel, at 72,000 interrupts a second, and what it looked
// like from userspace was a clock running seven times slow.
// See docs/history/kernel.md section 13.
//
// One device per process. A driver drives one thing; if you need two, run two.
// --- the crash screen, on a display the kernel no longer drives ------------
//
// A userspace display driver leaves a hole the kernel cannot see around: when
// the machine panics, the screen this process is scanning out is frozen at
// whatever it last put there. The machine is dead and its second monitor is
// still showing a shell prompt.
//
// The kernel cannot fix that by itself. It let go of the device deliberately
// (PCIIOC_CLAIM), and the process that took it will not run again -- panic
// means no scheduling, so there is nobody left to ask.
//
// So a userspace display driver tells the kernel, in advance, where its
// scanout lives:
//
// struct pciuser_panicfb pfb;
// pfb.index = index; // the device, already claimed
// pfb.paddr = dma.paddr; // the framebuffer, from PCIIOC_DMA
// pfb.width = 1280;
// pfb.height = 800;
// pfb.stride = 1280 * 4; // bytes per row; XRGB8888 only
// ioctl(fd, PCIIOC_PANICFB, &pfb);
//
// and on a panic the kernel paints the crash report into that memory and asks
// the driver it handed the device to -- its *kernel* driver, the one that was
// told to let go -- to put it on screen one last time. That driver resets the
// device and brings up a minimal queue from static memory: no allocation, no
// locks, nothing that can fail differently depending on what the machine was
// doing when it died.
//
// Registering is a promise about memory, so it is checked like one: the range
// must lie inside a block this process got from PCIIOC_DMA on this device.
// Without that check it would be a way to nominate any physical address in the
// machine to be overwritten at panic, which is a worse bug than the one it
// fixes.
//
// A zero paddr unregisters. The registration goes away with the claim and with
// the process, so a driver that exits leaves nothing behind.
struct pciuser_panicfb {
unsigned int index; // in: the claimed device
unsigned long long paddr; // in: physical address of the scanout, 0 to
// unregister
unsigned int width; // in: pixels
unsigned int height;
unsigned int stride; // in: bytes per row
};
// Registers are reached with mmap() on this device, where the *offset is the
// physical address of the BAR*:
//
// ioctl(fd, PCIIOC_INFO, &info);
// ioctl(fd, PCIIOC_CLAIM, &info.index);
// regs = mmap(0, info.bar[0].size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,
// fd, info.bar[0].base);
//
// The kernel refuses an offset that is not inside a BAR of a device this
// process has claimed, which is what stops this being /dev/mem with extra
// steps.
#endif // PCIUSER_H