Re: UIO: missing resource mapping

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:40:11AM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:16:32AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 09:44:33PM +0200, Hans J. Koch wrote:
> > > > Looking further at the code, I cannot see where the mem fields are
> > > > being filled at all.
> > > > Which code is supposed to write the struct uio_mem?
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, the driver should. However, Michael's idea is to use
> > > /sys/bus/pci/devices/XXXXXresourceX for mapping purposes.
> > > 
> > > That is of course also possible, but obviously it leads to confusion.
> > > We already had a long thread about this:
> > > 
> > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg73837.html
> > > 
> > > Michael, can we change the driver to offer all available PCI BARs in the
> > > normal UIO way? I'm afraid otherwise we'll have the same discussion over
> > > and over again.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Hans
> > 
> > My concern was people will ask for more and more stuff that pci
> > sysfs already has.
> > If we do add these is there a way to not duplicate code from pci?
> > Export pci_mmap_resource and use it? Or make the uio attributes
> > softlinks to pci sysfs somehow?
> 
> I understand your concern. Of course I'm also not in favor of duplicating
> code, but I don't think there's much overhead. PCI already exports all
> information needed by pci_resource_start(dev, bar) and
> pci_resource_len(dev, bar). Have a look at other UIO PCI drivers like
> uio_cif.c or uio_netx.c to see how it works. It's just a few more lines
> of code to loop through all BARs and add the to info->mem[i].
> 
> By the way, the current size of the info->mem[] array was exactly made
> with PCI in mind...
> 
> Thanks,
> Hans

Well we also need to check resource type and probably iomem_is_exclusive.

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MST