Re: [PATCH v8] PCI: Xilinx-NWL-PCIe: Added support for Xilinx NWL PCIe Host Controller

[Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>]

On 11/16/2015 7:14 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 11/11/15 06:33, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
>> Adding PCIe Root Port driver for Xilinx PCIe NWL bridge IP.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xilinx.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Kiran Gummaluri <rgummal@xilinx.com>
>> ---
>> Added logic to allocate contiguous hwirq in nwl_irq_domain_alloc function.
>> Moved MSI functionality to separate functions.
>> Changed error return values.
>> ---
>>   .../devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-pcie.txt    |   68 ++
>>   drivers/pci/host/Kconfig                           |   16 +-
>>   drivers/pci/host/Makefile                          |    1 +
>>   drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c                 | 1062 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   4 files changed, 1144 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-pcie.txt
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> +static int nwl_pcie_enable_msi(struct nwl_pcie *pcie, struct pci_bus *bus)
>> +{
>> +	struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(pcie->dev);
>> +	struct nwl_msi *msi = &pcie->msi;
>> +	unsigned long base;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	mutex_init(&msi->lock);
>> +
>> +	/* Check for msii_present bit */
>> +	ret = nwl_bridge_readl(pcie, I_MSII_CAPABILITIES) & MSII_PRESENT;
>> +	if (!ret) {
>> +		dev_err(pcie->dev, "MSI not present\n");
>> +		ret = -EIO;
>> +		goto err;
>> +	}
>> +
>> +	/* Enable MSII */
>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie, I_MSII_CONTROL) |
>> +			  MSII_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
>> +
>> +	/* Enable MSII status */
>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie, I_MSII_CONTROL) |
>> +			  MSII_STATUS_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
>> +
>> +	/* setup AFI/FPCI range */
>> +	msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>> +	base = virt_to_phys((void *)msi->pages);
>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, lower_32_bits(base), I_MSII_BASE_LO);
>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, upper_32_bits(base), I_MSII_BASE_HI);
>
> BTW, you still haven't answered my question as to why you need to waste
> a page of memory here, and why putting a device address doesn't work.
>
> As this is (to the best of my knowledge) the only driver doing so, I'd
> really like you to explain the rational behind this.

Might not be the only driver doing so after I start sending out patches 
for the iProc MSI support (soon), :)

I'm not sure how it works for the Xilinx NWL controller, which Bharat 
should be able to help to explain. But for the iProc MSI controller, 
there's no device I/O memory reserved for MSI posted writes in the ASIC. 
Therefore one needs to reserve host memory for these writes.

Ray

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	M.
>