PCI_CREATE_SLOT

Section: Hardware Interfaces (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

pci_create_slot - create or increment refcount for physical PCI slot

SYNOPSIS

struct pci_slot * pci_create_slot(struct pci_bus * parent, int slot_nr, const char * name, struct hotplug_slot * hotplug);

ARGUMENTS

parent

: struct pci_bus of parent bridge

slot_nr

: PCI_SLOT(pci_dev->devfn) or -1 for placeholder

name

: user visible string presented in /sys/bus/pci/slots/<name>

hotplug

: set if caller is hotplug driver, NULL otherwise

DESCRIPTION

PCI slots have first class attributes such as address, speed, width, and a struct pci_slot is used to manage them. This interface will either return a new struct pci_slot to the caller, or if the pci_slot already exists, its refcount will be incremented.

Slots are uniquely identified by a pci_bus, slot_nr tuple.

There are known platforms with broken firmware that assign the same name to multiple slots. Workaround these broken platforms by renaming the slots on behalf of the caller. If firmware assigns name N to

MULTIPLE SLOTS

The first slot is assigned N The second slot is assigned N-1 The third slot is assigned N-2 etc.

PLACEHOLDER SLOTS

In most cases, pci_bus, slot_nr will be sufficient to uniquely identify a slot. There is one notable exception - pSeries (rpaphp), where the slot_nr cannot be determined until a device is actually inserted into the slot. In this scenario, the caller may pass -1 for slot_nr.

The following semantics are imposed when the caller passes slot_nr == -1. First, we no longer check for an existing struct pci_slot, as there may be many slots with slot_nr of -1. The other change in semantics is user-visible, which is the 'address' parameter presented in sysfs will

CONSIST SOLELY OF A DDDD

bb tuple, where dddd is the PCI domain of the struct pci_bus and bb is the bus number. In other words, the devfn of the 'placeholder' slot will not be displayed.