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When specifying PCI devices on the kernel command line using a bus/device/function address, bus numbers can change when adding or replacing a device, changing motherboard firmware, or applying kernel parameters like "pci=assign-buses". When bus numbers change, it's likely the command line tweak will be applied to the wrong device. Therefore, it is useful to be able to specify devices with a base bus number and the path of devfns needed to get to it, similar to the "device scope" structure in the Intel VT-d spec, Section 8.3.1. Thus, we add an option to specify devices in the following format: [<domain>:]<bus>:<device>.<func>[/<device>.<func>]* The path can be any segment within the PCI hierarchy of any length and determined through the use of 'lspci -t'. When specified this way, it is less likely that a renumbered bus will result in a valid device specification and the tweak won't be applied to the wrong device. Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> [bhelgaas: use "device" instead of "slot" in documentation since that's the usual language in the PCI specs] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.