include/public: add better interface description to usbif.h

The PV USB protocol is poorly described. Add a more detailed
description to the usbif.h header file.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Luca Fancellu <luca.fancellu@arm.com>

1 files changed, 164 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/xen/include/public/io/usbif.h b/xen/include/public/io/usbif.h
index 96b9fb661d..dd378bcba5 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/io/usbif.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/io/usbif.h
@@ -32,6 +32,34 @@
 #include "../grant_table.h"
 
 /*
+ * Detailed Interface Description
+ * ==============================
+ * The pvUSB interface is using a split driver design: a frontend driver in
+ * the guest and a backend driver in a driver domain (normally dom0) having
+ * access to the physical USB device(s) being passed to the guest.
+ *
+ * The frontend and backend drivers use XenStore to initiate the connection
+ * between them, the I/O activity is handled via two shared ring pages and an
+ * event channel. As the interface between frontend and backend is at the USB
+ * host connector level, multiple (up to 31) physical USB devices can be
+ * handled by a single connection.
+ *
+ * The Xen pvUSB device name is "qusb", so the frontend's XenStore entries are
+ * to be found under "device/qusb", while the backend's XenStore entries are
+ * under "backend/<guest-dom-id>/qusb".
+ *
+ * When a new pvUSB connection is established, the frontend needs to setup the
+ * two shared ring pages for communication and the event channel. The ring
+ * pages need to be made available to the backend via the grant table
+ * interface.
+ *
+ * One of the shared ring pages is used by the backend to inform the frontend
+ * about USB device plug events (device to be added or removed). This is the
+ * "conn-ring".
+ *
+ * The other ring page is used for USB I/O communication (requests and
+ * responses). This is the "urb-ring".
+ *
  * Feature and Parameter Negotiation
  * =================================
  * The two halves of a Xen pvUSB driver utilize nodes within the XenStore to
@@ -99,6 +127,142 @@
  *      The machine ABI rules governing the format of all ring request and
  *      response structures.
  *
+ * Protocol Description
+ * ====================
+ *
+ *-------------------------- USB device plug events --------------------------
+ *
+ * USB device plug events are send via the "conn-ring" shared page. As only
+ * events are being sent, the respective requests from the frontend to the
+ * backend are just dummy ones.
+ * The events sent to the frontend have the following layout:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |               id                |    portnum     |     speed      | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   id - uint16_t, event id (taken from the actual frontend dummy request)
+ *   portnum - uint8_t, port number (1 ... 31)
+ *   speed - uint8_t, device USBIF_SPEED_*, USBIF_SPEED_NONE == unplug
+ *
+ * The dummy request:
+ *         0                1        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+
+ * |               id                | 2
+ * +----------------+----------------+
+ *   id - uint16_t, guest supplied value (no need for being unique)
+ *
+ *-------------------------- USB I/O request ---------------------------------
+ *
+ * A single USB I/O request on the "urb-ring" has the following layout:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |               id                |         nr_buffer_segs          | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                               pipe                                | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |         transfer_flags          |          buffer_length          | 12
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                       request type specific                       | 16
+ * |                               data                                | 20
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                              seg[0]                               | 24
+ * |                               data                                | 28
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/|
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |             seg[USBIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST - 1]               | 144
+ * |                               data                                | 148
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * Bit field bit number 0 is always least significant bit, undefined bits must
+ * be zero.
+ *   id - uint16_t, guest supplied value
+ *   nr_buffer_segs - uint16_t, number of segment entries in seg[] array
+ *   pipe - uint32_t, bit field with multiple information:
+ *     bits 0-4: port request to send to
+ *     bit 5: unlink request with specified id (cancel I/O) if set (see below)
+ *     bit 7: direction (1 = read from device)
+ *     bits 8-14: device number on port
+ *     bits 15-18: endpoint of device
+ *     bits 30-31: request type: 00 = isochronous, 01 = interrupt,
+ *                               10 = control, 11 = bulk
+ *   transfer_flags - uint16_t, bit field with processing flags:
+ *     bit 0: less data than specified allowed
+ *   buffer_length - uint16_t, total length of data
+ *   request type specific data - 8 bytes, see below
+ *   seg[] - array with 8 byte elements, see below
+ *
+ * Request type specific data for isochronous request:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |            interval             |           start_frame           | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |       number_of_packets         |       nr_frame_desc_segs        | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   interval - uint16_t, time interval in msecs between frames
+ *   start_frame - uint16_t, start frame number
+ *   number_of_packets - uint16_t, number of packets to transfer
+ *   nr_frame_desc_segs - uint16_t number of seg[] frame descriptors elements
+ *
+ * Request type specific data for interrupt request:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |            interval             |                0                | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                                 0                                 | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   interval - uint16_t, time in msecs until interruption
+ *
+ * Request type specific data for control request:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                      data of setup packet                         | 4
+ * |                                                                   | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *
+ * Request type specific data for bulk request:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                                 0                                 | 4
+ * |                                 0                                 | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *
+ * Request type specific data for unlink request:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |           unlink_id             |                0                | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                                 0                                 | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   unlink_id - uint16_t, request id of request to terminate
+ *
+ * seg[] array element layout:
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                               gref                                | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |             offset              |             length              | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   gref - uint32_t, grant reference of buffer page
+ *   offset - uint16_t, offset of buffer start in page
+ *   length - uint16_t, length of buffer in page
+ *
+ *-------------------------- USB I/O response --------------------------------
+ *
+ *         0                1                 2               3        octet
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |               id                |          start_frame            | 4
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                              status                               | 8
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                          actual_length                            | 12
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ * |                           error_count                             | 16
+ * +----------------+----------------+----------------+----------------+
+ *   id - uint16_t, id of the request this response belongs to
+ *   start_frame - uint16_t, start_frame this response (iso requests only)
+ *   status - int32_t, USBIF_STATUS_* (non-iso requests)
+ *   actual_length - uint32_t, actual size of data transferred
+ *   error_count - uint32_t, number of errors (iso requests)
  */
 
 enum usb_spec_version {