amd_hsmp.rst (2805B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2 3============================================ 4AMD HSMP interface 5============================================ 6 7Newer Fam19h EPYC server line of processors from AMD support system 8management functionality via HSMP (Host System Management Port). 9 10The Host System Management Port (HSMP) is an interface to provide 11OS-level software with access to system management functions via a 12set of mailbox registers. 13 14More details on the interface can be found in chapter 15"7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the family/model PPR 16Eg: https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip 17 18HSMP interface is supported on EPYC server CPU models only. 19 20 21HSMP device 22============================================ 23 24amd_hsmp driver under the drivers/platforms/x86/ creates miscdevice 25/dev/hsmp to let user space programs run hsmp mailbox commands. 26 27$ ls -al /dev/hsmp 28crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 123 Jan 21 21:41 /dev/hsmp 29 30Characteristics of the dev node: 31 * Write mode is used for running set/configure commands 32 * Read mode is used for running get/status monitor commands 33 34Access restrictions: 35 * Only root user is allowed to open the file in write mode. 36 * The file can be opened in read mode by all the users. 37 38In-kernel integration: 39 * Other subsystems in the kernel can use the exported transport 40 function hsmp_send_message(). 41 * Locking across callers is taken care by the driver. 42 43 44An example 45========== 46 47To access hsmp device from a C program. 48First, you need to include the headers:: 49 50 #include <linux/amd_hsmp.h> 51 52Which defines the supported messages/message IDs. 53 54Next thing, open the device file, as follows:: 55 56 int file; 57 58 file = open("/dev/hsmp", O_RDWR); 59 if (file < 0) { 60 /* ERROR HANDLING; you can check errno to see what went wrong */ 61 exit(1); 62 } 63 64The following IOCTL is defined: 65 66``ioctl(file, HSMP_IOCTL_CMD, struct hsmp_message *msg)`` 67 The argument is a pointer to a:: 68 69 struct hsmp_message { 70 __u32 msg_id; /* Message ID */ 71 __u16 num_args; /* Number of input argument words in message */ 72 __u16 response_sz; /* Number of expected output/response words */ 73 __u32 args[HSMP_MAX_MSG_LEN]; /* argument/response buffer */ 74 __u16 sock_ind; /* socket number */ 75 }; 76 77The ioctl would return a non-zero on failure; you can read errno to see 78what happened. The transaction returns 0 on success. 79 80More details on the interface and message definitions can be found in chapter 81"7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the respective family/model PPR 82eg: https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip 83 84User space C-APIs are made available by linking against the esmi library, 85which is provided by the E-SMS project https://developer.amd.com/e-sms/. 86See: https://github.com/amd/esmi_ib_library