[PATCH 0/5] Modularize PCI_DW related drivers.

Arnd Bergmann
2016-02-24T09:04:57Z

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 11:39:26 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 08 February 2016 05:30 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > In a recent patch series that aimed to remove code related to module
> > unload for PCI support that was simply non modular, the discussion
> > led to people wanting to keep the code and push towards taking the
> > steps needed to support moving it towards tristate instead[1].
> >
> > Here, we take step one, which is simply making the Kconfig change
> > and then dealing with any build fallout or modpost fallout. What
> > amounts to essentially a sanity build test. To be clear, these
> > have not been runtime validated; that will need to be done by those
> > with access to real hardware. However, the changes are not anything
> > that should disrupt any existing built-in validation, so real world
> > users should not be impacted by this change.
> >
> > We start with a smaller family of drivers; those that actively select
> > PCI_DW, as a nice self contained group to test the waters and see if
> > everyone is still good with this approach before investing more time
> > on a wider scale to other pci/host/ code blocks.
> >
> > As such the drivers here share a dependency on having the same group
> > of functions exported in order to successfully complete modpost.
> >
> > In addition, we have to stray outside drivers/pci to add exports
> > in two places; once for an ARM fault handler, and once for an OF
> > variable.
> >
> > The pci-keystone-dw.c instance was handled separately because it
> > consists of two source files that need their own group of driver
> > specific exports above and beyond the "shared" ones.
> >
> > Then we convert the Kconfig for all remaining at once; we could have
> > done it on a per driver basis for ease of revert if anyone really
> > objects, but since it would be a one line change, that seemed like
> > not a real concern.
> >
> > Build testing was done on the linux-next tree for arm allmodconfig.
>
> I took these patches and gave a test with DRA7xx board. As expected there was
> no issues when the driver was built-in. However when I tried to rmmod/modprobe
> I got this error [2].

Thanks for testing this!

> [2] -> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/15185894/

It looks like you are hitting the BUG_ON() in ioremap_pte_range()
that checks if a virtual address already has a page table entry,
which in turn is probably a result of dw_pcie_host_init()
calling pci_remap_iospace() again for the same memory area
it has called the last time, and no cleanup done inbetween.

Could you try adding a pci_unmap_iospace() and calling that
in the device remove function? Let me know if you need help
implementing it.

Arnd