1 What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../bind
3 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
5 Writing a device location to this file will cause
6 the driver to attempt to bind to the device found at
7 this location. This is useful for overriding default
8 bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
9 That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
10 found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example:
11 # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/bind
12 (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
14 What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../unbind
16 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
18 Writing a device location to this file will cause the
19 driver to attempt to unbind from the device found at
20 this location. This may be useful when overriding default
21 bindings. The format for the location is: DDDD:BB:DD.F.
22 That is Domain:Bus:Device.Function and is the same as
23 found in /sys/bus/pci/devices/. For example:
24 # echo 0000:00:19.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/unbind
25 (Note: kernels before 2.6.28 may require echo -n).
27 What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../new_id
29 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
31 Writing a device ID to this file will attempt to
32 dynamically add a new device ID to a PCI device driver.
33 This may allow the driver to support more hardware than
34 was included in the driver's static device ID support
35 table at compile time. The format for the device ID is:
36 VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM PPPP. That is Vendor ID,
37 Device ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID,
38 Class, Class Mask, and Private Driver Data. The Vendor ID
39 and Device ID fields are required, the rest are optional.
40 Upon successfully adding an ID, the driver will probe
41 for the device and attempt to bind to it. For example:
42 # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/new_id
44 What: /sys/bus/pci/drivers/.../remove_id
46 Contact: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
48 Writing a device ID to this file will remove an ID
49 that was dynamically added via the new_id sysfs entry.
50 The format for the device ID is:
51 VVVV DDDD SVVV SDDD CCCC MMMM. That is Vendor ID, Device
52 ID, Subsystem Vendor ID, Subsystem Device ID, Class,
53 and Class Mask. The Vendor ID and Device ID fields are
54 required, the rest are optional. After successfully
55 removing an ID, the driver will no longer support the
56 device. This is useful to ensure auto probing won't
57 match the driver to the device. For example:
58 # echo "8086 10f5" > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/foo/remove_id
60 What: /sys/bus/pci/rescan
62 Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
64 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
65 force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
66 re-discover previously removed devices.
68 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_bus
70 Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
72 Writing a zero value to this attribute disallows MSI and
73 MSI-X for any future drivers of the device. If the device
74 is a bridge, MSI and MSI-X will be disallowed for future
75 drivers of all child devices under the bridge. Drivers
76 must be reloaded for the new setting to take effect.
78 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/
80 Contact: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
82 The /sys/devices/.../msi_irqs directory contains a variable set
83 of files, with each file being named after a corresponding msi
84 irq vector allocated to that device.
86 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/<N>
88 Contact: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
90 This attribute indicates the mode that the irq vector named by
91 the file is in (msi vs. msix)
93 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../remove
95 Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
97 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
98 hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
100 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../pci_bus/.../rescan
102 Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
104 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
105 force a rescan of the bus and all child buses,
106 and re-discover devices removed earlier from this
107 part of the device tree.
109 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
111 Contact: Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
113 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
114 force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
115 child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
116 from this part of the device tree.
118 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
120 Contact: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
122 Some devices allow an individual function to be reset
123 without affecting other functions in the same device.
124 For devices that have this support, a file named reset
125 will be present in sysfs. Writing 1 to this file
128 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
130 Contact: Ben Hutchings <bwh@kernel.org>
132 A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
133 binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
134 device. It should follow the VPD format defined in
135 PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
136 that some devices may have malformatted data. If the
137 underlying VPD has a writable section then the
138 corresponding section of this file will be writable.
140 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../virtfnN
142 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
144 This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
145 capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it.
146 The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
147 Virtual Function whose index is N (0...MaxVFs-1).
149 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../dep_link
151 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
153 This symbolic link appears when hardware supports the SR-IOV
154 capability and the Physical Function driver has enabled it,
155 and this device has vendor specific dependencies with others.
156 The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of
157 Physical Function this device depends on.
159 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../physfn
161 Contact: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
163 This symbolic link appears when a device is a Virtual Function.
164 The symbolic link points to the PCI device sysfs entry of the
165 Physical Function this device associates with.
167 What: /sys/bus/pci/slots/.../module
169 Contact: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
171 This symbolic link points to the PCI hotplug controller driver
172 module that manages the hotplug slot.
174 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label
176 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
178 Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
179 given name (SMBIOS type 41 string or ACPI _DSM string) of
180 the PCI device. The attribute will be created only
181 if the firmware has given a name to the PCI device.
182 ACPI _DSM string name will be given priority if the
183 system firmware provides SMBIOS type 41 string also.
185 Userspace applications interested in knowing the
186 firmware assigned name of the PCI device.
188 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index
190 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
192 Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
193 given instance (SMBIOS type 41 device type instance) of the
194 PCI device. The attribute will be created only if the firmware
195 has given an instance number to the PCI device.
197 Userspace applications interested in knowing the
198 firmware assigned device type instance of the PCI
199 device that can help in understanding the firmware
200 intended order of the PCI device.
202 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../acpi_index
204 Contact: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>, linux-bugs@dell.com
206 Reading this attribute will provide the firmware
207 given instance (ACPI _DSM instance number) of the PCI device.
208 The attribute will be created only if the firmware has given
209 an instance number to the PCI device. ACPI _DSM instance number
210 will be given priority if the system firmware provides SMBIOS
211 type 41 device type instance also.
213 Userspace applications interested in knowing the
214 firmware assigned instance number of the PCI
215 device that can help in understanding the firmware
216 intended order of the PCI device.
218 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../d3cold_allowed
220 Contact: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
222 d3cold_allowed is bit to control whether the corresponding PCI
223 device can be put into D3Cold state. If it is cleared, the
224 device will never be put into D3Cold state. If it is set, the
225 device may be put into D3Cold state if other requirements are
226 satisfied too. Reading this attribute will show the current
227 value of d3cold_allowed bit. Writing this attribute will set
228 the value of d3cold_allowed bit.
230 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../sriov_totalvfs
232 Contact: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
234 This file appears when a physical PCIe device supports SR-IOV.
235 Userspace applications can read this file to determine the
236 maximum number of Virtual Functions (VFs) a PCIe physical
237 function (PF) can support. Typically, this is the value reported
238 in the PF's SR-IOV extended capability structure's TotalVFs
239 element. Drivers have the ability at probe time to reduce the
240 value read from this file via the pci_sriov_set_totalvfs()
243 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../sriov_numvfs
245 Contact: Donald Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
247 This file appears when a physical PCIe device supports SR-IOV.
248 Userspace applications can read and write to this file to
249 determine and control the enablement or disablement of Virtual
250 Functions (VFs) on the physical function (PF). A read of this
251 file will return the number of VFs that are enabled on this PF.
252 A number written to this file will enable the specified
253 number of VFs. A userspace application would typically read the
254 file and check that the value is zero, and then write the number
255 of VFs that should be enabled on the PF; the value written
256 should be less than or equal to the value in the sriov_totalvfs
257 file. A userspace application wanting to disable the VFs would
258 write a zero to this file. The core ensures that valid values
259 are written to this file, and returns errors when values are not
260 valid. For example, writing a 2 to this file when sriov_numvfs
261 is not 0 and not 2 already will return an error. Writing a 10
262 when the value of sriov_totalvfs is 8 will return an error.
264 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../driver_override
266 Contact: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
268 This file allows the driver for a device to be specified which
269 will override standard static and dynamic ID matching. When
270 specified, only a driver with a name matching the value written
271 to driver_override will have an opportunity to bind to the
272 device. The override is specified by writing a string to the
273 driver_override file (echo pci-stub > driver_override) and
274 may be cleared with an empty string (echo > driver_override).
275 This returns the device to standard matching rules binding.
276 Writing to driver_override does not automatically unbind the
277 device from its current driver or make any attempt to
278 automatically load the specified driver. If no driver with a
279 matching name is currently loaded in the kernel, the device
280 will not bind to any driver. This also allows devices to
281 opt-out of driver binding using a driver_override name such as
282 "none". Only a single driver may be specified in the override,
283 there is no support for parsing delimiters.
285 What: /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../numa_node
287 Contact: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
289 This file contains the NUMA node to which the PCI device is
290 attached, or -1 if the node is unknown. The initial value
291 comes from an ACPI _PXM method or a similar firmware
292 source. If that is missing or incorrect, this file can be
293 written to override the node. In that case, please report
294 a firmware bug to the system vendor. Writing to this file
295 taints the kernel with TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, which
296 reduces the supportability of your system.