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authorGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>2018-09-28 08:44:19 +0200
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>2018-11-05 13:24:02 -0500
commit417463341e3e35c9be80f54b0d6ae8cfdb4b0d84 (patch)
treeafeac5ed5ba1bdb1b2a2cbf313dbae04e8ff19cb /docs
parent7115dcf4f19e1d590aec7afe315095af9491dad6 (diff)
pci-testdev: add optional memory bar
Add memory bar to pci-testdev. Size is configurable using the membar property. Setting the size to zero (default) turns it off. Can be used to check whether guests handle large pci bars correctly. Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/specs/pci-testdev.txt15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/specs/pci-testdev.txt b/docs/specs/pci-testdev.txt
index 128ae222ef..4280a1e73c 100644
--- a/docs/specs/pci-testdev.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/pci-testdev.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
pci-test is a device used for testing low level IO
-device implements up to two BARs: BAR0 and BAR1.
-Each BAR can be memory or IO. Guests must detect
-BAR type and act accordingly.
+device implements up to three BARs: BAR0, BAR1 and BAR2.
+Each of BAR 0+1 can be memory or IO. Guests must detect
+BAR types and act accordingly.
-Each BAR size is up to 4K bytes.
-Each BAR starts with the following header:
+BAR 0+1 size is up to 4K bytes each.
+BAR 0+1 starts with the following header:
typedef struct PCITestDevHdr {
uint8_t test; <- write-only, starts a given test number
@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ All registers are little endian.
device is expected to always implement tests 0 to N on each BAR, and to add new
tests with higher numbers. In this way a guest can scan test numbers until it
detects an access type that it does not support on this BAR, then stop.
+
+BAR2 is a 64bit memory bar, without backing storage. It is disabled
+by default and can be enabled using the membar=<size> property. This
+can be used to test whether guests handle pci bars of a specific
+(possibly quite large) size correctly.