[PATCH v2] arm64: Enable PCI write-combine resources under sysfs

[Clint Sbisa <csbisa@amazon.com>]

This change exposes write-combine mappings under sysfs for
prefetchable PCI resources on arm64.

Originally, the usage of "write combine" here was driven by the x86
definition of write combine. This definition is specific to x86 and
does not generalize to other architectures. However, the usage of WC
has mutated to "write combine" semantics, which is implemented
differently on each arch.

Generally, prefetchable BARs are accepted to allow speculative
accesses, write combining, and re-ordering-- from the PCI perspective,
this means there are no read side effects. (This contradicts the PCI
spec which allows prefetchable BARs to have read side effects, but
this definition is ill-advised as it is impossible to meet.) On x86,
prefetchable BARs are mapped as WC as originally defined (with some
conditionals on arch features). On arm64, WC is taken to mean normal
non-cacheable memory.

In practice, write combine semantics are used to minimize write
operations. A common usage of this is minimizing PCI TLPs which can
significantly improve performance with PCI devices. In order to
provide the same benefits to userspace, we need to allow userspace to
map prefetchable BARs with write combine semantics. The resourceX_wc
mapping is used today by userspace programs and libraries.

While this model is flawed as "write combine" is very ill-defined, it
is already used by multiple non-x86 archs to expose write combine
semantics to user space. We enable this on arm64 to give userspace on
arm64 an equivalent mechanism for utilizing write combining with PCI
devices.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Clint Sbisa <csbisa@amazon.com>
---
Changes in v2:
  - Rewrote the commit message.

 arch/arm64/include/asm/pci.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pci.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pci.h
index 70b323cf8300..b33ca260e3c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pci.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pci.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #define pcibios_assign_all_busses() \
 	(pci_has_flag(PCI_REASSIGN_ALL_BUS))
 
+#define arch_can_pci_mmap_wc() 1
 #define ARCH_GENERIC_PCI_MMAP_RESOURCE	1
 
 extern int isa_dma_bridge_buggy;
-- 
2.23.3


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