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authorMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-11-20 11:11:29 +0000
committerMatthieu Herrb <matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-11-20 11:11:29 +0000
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+.\" $OpenBSD: mtrr.4,v 1.1 1999/11/20 11:11:28 matthieu Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Pentium MTRR driver for OpenBSD.
+.\" Copyright 1999 Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@openbsd.org>
+.\"
+.\" Modification and redistribution in source and binary forms is
+.\" permitted provided that due credit is given to the author and the
+.\" OpenBSD project (for instance by leaving this copyright notice
+.\" intact).
+.\"
+.Dd November 15, 1999
+.Dt MTRR 4 i386
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mtrr
+.Nd driver for cpu performance counters
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd pseudo-device mtrr
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+device provides access to the memory range attributes supported by the
+MTRRs on pentiums.
+.Pp
+.Ss IOCTL INTERFACE
+Several architectures allow attributes to be associated with ranges of physical
+memory. These attributes can be manipulated via
+.Fn ioctl
+calls performed on
+.Nm /dev/mem
+or
+.Nm /dev/xf86 .
+Declarations and data types are to be found in
+.Pa <memrange.h>
+.Pp
+The specific attributes, and number of programmable ranges may vary between
+architectures. The full set of supported attributes is:
+.Bl -tag -width 10
+.It MDF_UNCACHEABLE
+The region is not cached.
+.It MDF_WRITECOMBINE
+Writes to the region may be combined or performed out of order.
+.It MDF_WRITETHROUGH
+Writes to the region are committed synchronously.
+.It MDF_WRITEBACK
+Writes to the region are committed asynchronously.
+.It MDF_WRITEPROTECT
+The region cannot be written to.
+.El
+.Pp
+Memory ranges are described by
+.Fa struct mem_range_desc :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+u_int64_t mr_base; /\(** physical base address \(**/
+u_int64_t mr_len; /\(** physical length of region \(**/
+int mr_flags; /\(** attributes of region \(**/
+char mr_owner[8];
+.Ed
+.Pp
+In addition to the region attributes listed above, the following flags
+may also be set in the
+.Fa mr_flags
+field:
+.Bl -tag -width 10
+.It MDF_FIXBASE
+The region's base address cannot be changed.
+.It MDF_FIXLEN
+The region's length cannot be changed.
+.It MDF_FIRMWARE
+The region is believed to have been established by the system firmare.
+.It MDF_ACTIVE
+The region is currently active.
+.It MDF_BOGUS
+We believe the region to be invalid or otherwise erroneous.
+.It MDF_FIXACTIVE
+The region cannot be disabled.
+.It MDF_BUSY
+The region is currently owned by another process and may not be
+altered.
+.El
+.Pp
+Operations are performed using
+.Fa struct mem_range_op :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+struct mem_range_desc *mo_desc;
+int mo_arg[2];
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The
+.Fa MEMRANGE_GET
+ioctl is used to retrieve current memory range attributes. If
+.Fa mo_arg[0]
+is set to 0, it will be updated with the total number of memory range
+descriptors. If greater than 0, the array at
+.Fa mo_desc
+will be filled with a corresponding number of descriptor structures,
+or the maximum, whichever is less.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fa MEMRANGE_SET
+ioctl is used to add, alter and remove memory range attributes. A range
+with the MDF_FIXACTIVE flag may not be removed; a range with the MDF_BUSY
+flag may not be removed or updated.
+.Pp
+.Fa mo_arg[0]
+should be set to MEMRANGE_SET_UPDATE to update an existing
+or establish a new range, or to MEMRANGE_SET_REMOVE to remove a range.
+.Pp
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Bl -tag -width 10
+.It EOPNOTSUPP
+Memory range operations are not supported on this architecture.
+.It ENXIO
+No memory range descriptors are available (eg. firmware has not enabled
+any).
+.It EINVAL
+The memory range supplied as an argument is invalid or overlaps another
+range in a fashion not supported by this architecture.
+.It EBUSY
+An attempt to remove or update a range failed because the range is busy.
+.It ENOSPC
+An attempt to create a new range failed due to a shortage of hardware
+resources (eg. descriptor slots).
+.It ENOENT
+An attempt to remove a range failed because no range matches the descriptor
+base/length supplued.
+.It EPERM
+An attempt to remove a range failed because the range is permanently
+enabled.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ioctl 2 ,
+.Xr mem 4 ,
+.Xr xf86 4 ,
+.Xr memconfig 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+.Nm
+support was originally included in FreeBSD 3.3.