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authorSebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com>2023-01-27 13:33:49 +0100
committerThomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>2023-01-30 13:43:53 +0100
commite59a59a457bf135e2acd38df2ca7aca9c93e53d1 (patch)
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docs/s390x/pcidevices: document pci devices on s390x
Add some documentation about the zpci device and how to use it with pci devices on s390x. Used source: Cornelia Huck's blog post https://people.redhat.com/~cohuck/2018/02/19/notes-on-pci-on-s390x.html Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mitterle <smitterl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230127123349.55294-1-smitterl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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+PCI devices on s390x
+====================
+
+PCI devices on s390x work differently than on other architectures and need to
+be configured in a slightly different way.
+
+Every PCI device is linked with an additional ``zpci`` device.
+While the ``zpci`` device will be autogenerated if not specified, it is
+recommended to specify it explicitly so that you can pass s390-specific
+PCI configuration.
+
+For example, in order to pass a PCI device ``0000:00:00.0`` through to the
+guest, you would specify::
+
+ qemu-system-s390x ... \
+ -device zpci,uid=1,fid=0,target=hostdev0,id=zpci1 \
+ -device vfio-pci,host=0000:00:00.0,id=hostdev0
+
+Here, the zpci device is joined with the PCI device via the ``target`` property.
+
+Note that we don't set bus, slot or function here for the guest as is common in
+other PCI implementations. Topology information is not available on s390x, and
+the guest will not see any of the bus, slot or function information specified
+on the command line.
+
+Instead, ``uid`` and ``fid`` determine how the device is presented to the guest
+operating system.
+
+In case of Linux, ``uid`` will be used in the ``domain`` part of the PCI
+identifier, and ``fid`` identifies the physical slot, i.e.::
+
+ qemu-system-s390x ... \
+ -device zpci,uid=7,fid=8,target=hostdev0,id=zpci1 \
+ ...
+
+will be presented in the guest as::
+
+ # lspci -v
+ 0007:00:00.0 ...
+ Physical Slot: 00000008
+ ...
diff --git a/docs/system/target-s390x.rst b/docs/system/target-s390x.rst
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--- a/docs/system/target-s390x.rst
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ or vfio-ap is also available.
s390x/css
s390x/3270
s390x/vfio-ccw
+ s390x/pcidevices
Architectural features
======================