doc: add documentation for uio-hv-generic

Update UIO documentation to include basic information about
uio_hv_generic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index cd0e452dfed56e91e8fd4223cf3536da4e90f799..5210f8a577c64723203a77f171345d3a0537de6f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ GPL version 2.
 </abstract>
 
 <revhistory>
+       <revision>
+       <revnumber>0.10</revnumber>
+       <date>2016-10-17</date>
+       <authorinitials>sch</authorinitials>
+       <revremark>Added generic hyperv driver
+               </revremark>
+       </revision>
        <revision>
        <revnumber>0.9</revnumber>
        <date>2009-07-16</date>
@@ -1033,6 +1040,61 @@ int main()
 
 </chapter>
 
+<chapter id="uio_hv_generic" xreflabel="Using Generic driver for Hyper-V VMBUS">
+<?dbhtml filename="uio_hv_generic.html"?>
+<title>Generic Hyper-V UIO driver</title>
+       <para>
+       The generic driver is a kernel module named uio_hv_generic.
+       It supports devices on the Hyper-V VMBus similar to uio_pci_generic
+       on PCI bus.
+       </para>
+
+<sect1 id="uio_hv_generic_binding">
+<title>Making the driver recognize the device</title>
+       <para>
+Since the driver does not declare any device GUID's, it will not get loaded
+automatically and will not automatically bind to any devices, you must load it
+and allocate id to the driver yourself. For example, to use the network device
+GUID:
+       <programlisting>
+ modprobe uio_hv_generic
+ echo &quot;f8615163-df3e-46c5-913f-f2d2f965ed0e&quot; &gt; /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/new_id
+       </programlisting>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+If there already is a hardware specific kernel driver for the device, the
+generic driver still won't bind to it, in this case if you want to use the
+generic driver (why would you?) you'll have to manually unbind the hardware
+specific driver and bind the generic driver, like this:
+       <programlisting>
+         echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 &gt; /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/hv_netvsc/unbind
+         echo -n vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3 &gt; /sys/bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic/bind
+       </programlisting>
+       </para>
+       <para>
+You can verify that the device has been bound to the driver
+by looking for it in sysfs, for example like the following:
+       <programlisting>
+    ls -l /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver
+       </programlisting>
+Which if successful should print
+       <programlisting>
+  .../vmbus-ed963694-e847-4b2a-85af-bc9cfc11d6f3/driver -&gt; ../../../bus/vmbus/drivers/uio_hv_generic
+       </programlisting>
+       </para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="uio_hv_generic_internals">
+<title>Things to know about uio_hv_generic</title>
+       <para>
+On each interrupt, uio_hv_generic sets the Interrupt Disable bit.
+This prevents the device from generating further interrupts
+until the bit is cleared. The userspace driver should clear this
+bit before blocking and waiting for more interrupts.
+       </para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
 <appendix id="app1">
 <title>Further information</title>
 <itemizedlist>