Hello Alexey, On 12/09/2014 07:57 AM, Alexey Ishchuk wrote: > Add s390_pci_mmio_read.2 and s390_pci_mmio_write.2 manual pages for the > new PCI MMIO memory access system calls added for s390 platform. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Ishchuk <aishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks for these patches. A general question: these pages have so much text in common, might it not be better to combine them into one page? If you agree, could you please resubmit a single-page version? Some more comments below. > --- > man2/s390_pci_mmio_read.2 | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2 | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 168 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 man2/s390_pci_mmio_read.2 > create mode 100644 man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2 > > diff --git a/man2/s390_pci_mmio_read.2 b/man2/s390_pci_mmio_read.2 > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..16487c3 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/man2/s390_pci_mmio_read.2 > @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ > +.\" Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2014 > +.\" Author: Alexey Ishchuk <aishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > +.\" > +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) > +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or > +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of > +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. > +.\" > +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" > +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any > +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including > +.\" intermediate and printed output. > +.\" > +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. > +.\" > +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public > +.\" License along with this manual; if not, see > +.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > +.\" %%%LICENSE_END > +.\" > + > +.TH S390_PCI_MMIO_READ 2 2014-11-25 "Linux Programmer's Manual" > +.SH NAME > +s390_pci_mmio_read \- read data from PCI MMIO memory page. No "." at the end of the above line. In a combined page, this line might read: s390_pci_mmio_read, s390_pci_mmio_write \- transfer data to/from PCI MMIO memory page. > +.SH SYNOPSIS > +.nf > +.B #include <asm/unistd.h> > + > +.BI "int s390_pci_mmio_read(unsigned long " mmio_addr ", > +.BI " void * " user_buffer ", No space after the "*" > +.BI " size_t " length "); > +.fi > +.SH DESCRIPTION > +The > +.BR s390_pci_mmio_read () > +system call reads data from a PCI MMIO memory location > +to the user space buffer > +.IR user_buffer > +of > +.IR length > +bytes size. Can these reads ever block? > + > +The address specified by the > +.IR mmio_addr > +parameter must belong to a PCI MMIO memory page mapping in the user > +address space, and data being read must not cross a page boundary. s/data/the data/ > +The > +.IR length > +parameter value cannot be greater than page size. s/page/the page/ > +.SH RETURN VALUE > +On success, > +.BR s390_pci_mmio_read () > +returns 0. > +On error, \-1 is returned and > +.IR errno > +is set to one of the error codes listed below. > +.SH ERRORS > +.TP > +.B ENODEV > +PCI support is not enabled. > +.TP > +.B ENOMEM > +insufficient memory. The first word of the sentence following each of these error entries should be capitalized. This: "Insufficient memory" Same for each of the two entries below. > +.TP > +.B EFAULT > +invalid address was specified. > +.TP > +.B EINVAL > +invalid parameter value. > +.SH VERSIONS > +This system call is available since Linux 3.19. > +.SH CONFORMING TO > +This Linux-specific system call is available only on the s390 > +architecture. > +The PCI support is available beginning with System z EC12. Is this maybe better as: "The required PCI support..."? > +.SH NOTES > +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call, use > +.BR syscall (2) > +to call it. > +.SH SEE ALSO > +.BR syscall (2) > diff --git a/man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2 b/man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2 > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..d2a8411 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2 > @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ > +.\" Copyright (c) IBM Corp. 2014 > +.\" Author: Alexey Ishchuk <aishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > +.\" > +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) > +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or > +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of > +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. > +.\" > +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" > +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any > +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including > +.\" intermediate and printed output. > +.\" > +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. > +.\" > +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public > +.\" License along with this manual; if not, see > +.\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. > +.\" %%%LICENSE_END > +.\" > +.TH S390_PCI_MMIO_WRITE 2 2014-11-25 "Linux Programmer's Manual" > +.SH NAME > +s390_pci_mmio_write \- write data to PCI MMIO memory page. > +.SH SYNOPSIS > +.nf > +.B #include <asm/unistd.h> > + > +.BI "int s390_pci_mmio_write(unsigned long " mmio_addr ", > +.BI " void * " user_buffer ", > +.BI " size_t " length "); > +.fi > +.SH DESCRIPTION > +The > +.BR s390_pci_mmio_write () > +system call writes data of length > +.IR length > +from the user space buffer > +.IR user_buffer > +to a PCI MMIO memory location. > + > +The Remove the preceding line. > +The address specified by the > +.IR mmio_addr > +parameter must belong to a PCI MMIO memory page mapping in the user > +address space, and data being written must not cross a page s/data/the data/ > +boundary. The > +.IR length > +parameter value cannot be greater than page size. s/page/the page/ > +.SH RETURN VALUE > +On success, > +.BR s390_pci_mmio_write () > +returns 0. > +On error, \-1 is returned and > +.IR errno > +is set to one of the error codes listed below. > +.SH ERRORS > +.TP > +.B ENODEV > +PCI support is not enabled. > +.TP > +.B ENOMEM > +insufficient memory. > +.TP > +.B EFAULT > +invalid address was specified. > +.TP > +.B EINVAL > +invalid parameter value. > +.SH VERSIONS > +This system call is available since Linux 3.19. > +.SH CONFORMING TO > +This Linux-specific system call is available only on the s390 > +architecture. The PCI support is available beginning with System z EC12. > +.SH NOTES > +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call, use > +.BR syscall (2) > +to call it. > +.SH SEE ALSO > +.BR syscall (2) Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html