Documentation/PCI/sysfs-pci.rst
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- Support Tooling And Documentation
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Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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Accessing PCI device resources through sysfs
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sysfs, usually mounted at /sys, provides access to PCI resources on platforms
that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this::
/sys/devices/pci0000:17
|-- 0000:17:00.0
| |-- class
| |-- config
| |-- device
| |-- enable
| |-- irq
| |-- local_cpus
| |-- remove
| |-- resource
| |-- resource0
| |-- resource1
| |-- resource2
| |-- revision
| |-- rom
| |-- subsystem_device
| |-- subsystem_vendor
| `-- vendor
`-- ...
The topmost element describes the PCI domain and bus number. In this case,
the domain number is 0000 and the bus number is 17 (both values are in hex).
This bus contains a single function device in slot 0. The domain and bus
numbers are reproduced for convenience. Under the device directory are several
files, each with their own function.
=================== =====================================================
file function
=================== =====================================================
class PCI class (ascii, ro)
config PCI config space (binary, rw)
device PCI device (ascii, ro)
enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw)
irq IRQ number (ascii, ro)
local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro)
remove remove device from kernel's list (ascii, wo)
resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro)
resource0..N PCI resource N, if present (binary, mmap, rw\ [1]_)
resource0_wc..N_wc PCI WC map resource N, if prefetchable (binary, mmap)
revision PCI revision (ascii, ro)
rom PCI ROM resource, if present (binary, ro)
subsystem_device PCI subsystem device (ascii, ro)
subsystem_vendor PCI subsystem vendor (ascii, ro)
vendor PCI vendor (ascii, ro)
=================== =====================================================
::
ro - read only file
rw - file is readable and writable
wo - write only file
mmap - file is mmapable
ascii - file contains ascii text
binary - file contains binary data
cpumask - file contains a cpumask type
.. [1] rw for IORESOURCE_IO (I/O port) regions only
The read only files are informational, writes to them will be ignored, with
the exception of the 'rom' file. Writable files can be used to perform
actions on the device (e.g. changing config space, detaching a device).
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.