[PATCH v3 11/13] drm/xe/configfs: Improve documentation steps

Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi at intel.com
Fri Aug 8 17:29:54 UTC 2025


The steps are roughly:

1. Load the module without binding to the device
2. Configure the desired device
3. Bind the device

Move the binding part to the "Create devices" since it's not exclusive
to the survivability_mode attribute and better document the steps.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_configfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_configfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_configfs.c
index 7c92d293ba733..58196b7571239 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_configfs.c
@@ -29,11 +29,18 @@
  * See Documentation/filesystems/configfs.rst for more information about how configfs works.
  *
  * Create devices
- * ===============
+ * ==============
+ *
+ * To create a device, the ``xe`` module should already be loaded, but some
+ * attributes can only be set before binding the device. It can be accomplished
+ * by blocking the driver autoprobe:
  *
- * In order to create a device, the user has to create a directory inside ``'xe'``::
+ *	# echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_autoprobe
+ *	# modprobe xe
  *
- *	mkdir /sys/kernel/config/xe/0000:03:00.0/
+ * In order to create a device, the user has to create a directory inside ``xe``::
+ *
+ *	# mkdir /sys/kernel/config/xe/0000:03:00.0/
  *
  * Every device created is populated by the driver with entries that can be
  * used to configure it::
@@ -49,6 +56,12 @@
  *	    ├── engines_allowed
  *	    └── enable_psmi
  *
+ * After configuring the attributes as per next section, the device can be
+ * probed with::
+ *
+ *	# echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/xe/bind
+ *	# # or
+ *	# echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers_probe
  *
  * Configure Attributes
  * ====================
@@ -60,7 +73,6 @@
  * effect when probing the device. Example to enable it::
  *
  *	# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/config/xe/0000:03:00.0/survivability_mode
- *	# echo 0000:03:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/xe/bind  (Enters survivability mode if supported)
  *
  * This attribute can only be set before binding to the device.
  *

-- 
2.50.1



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