Re: [PATCH] PCI: mediatek: Remove the usage of virt_to_phys

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 09:54:16PM +0530, manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 06:41:50PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 08:11:19AM +0000, Jianjun Wang (王建军) wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2025-01-15 at 23:01 +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 01:20:58PM +0800, Jianjun Wang wrote:
> > > > > Remove the usage of virt_to_phys, as it will cause sparse warnings
> > > > > when
> > > > > building on some platforms.

> > > > >       snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "port%d", slot);
> > > > > -     port->base = devm_platform_ioremap_resource_byname(pdev,
> > > > > name);
> > > > > +     regs = platform_get_resource_byname(pdev, IORESOURCE_MEM,
> > > > > name);
> > > > > +     if (!regs)
> > > > > +             return -EINVAL;
> > > > > +
> > > > > +     port->base = devm_ioremap_resource(dev, regs);
> > > > >       if (IS_ERR(port->base)) {
> > > > >               dev_err(dev, "failed to map port%d base\n", slot);
> > > > >               return PTR_ERR(port->base);
> > > > >       }
> > > > > 
> > > > > +     port->msg_addr = regs->start + PCIE_MSI_VECTOR;
> > 
> > I think this still assumes that a CPU physical address
> > (regs->start) is the same as the PCI bus address used for MSI, so
> > this doesn't seem like the right solution to me.
> > 
> > Apparently they happen to be the same on this platform because (I
> > assume) MSIs actually do work, but it's not a good pattern for
> > drivers to copy.  I think what we really need is a dma_addr_t, and
> > I think there are one or two PCI controller drivers that do that.
> 
> I don't see why we would need 'dma_addr_t' here. The MSI address is
> a static physical address on this platform and that is not a DMA
> address. Other drivers can *only* copy this pattern if they also
> have the physical address allocated for MSI.

Isn't an MSI on PCI just a DMA write to a certain address?  My
assumption is that if you put an analyzer on that link, an MSI from a
device would be structurally indistinguishable from a DMA write from
the device.  The MSI uses a different address, but doesn't it use the
same size and kind of address, at least from the PCIe protocol
perspective?

Bjorn