[PATCH v8 3/9] pci: Introduce pci_register_io_range() helper function.

Liviu Dudau
2014-07-08T22:45:29Z

On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:29:51PM +0100, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 July 2014, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:43:28PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> >> > +static LIST_HEAD(io_range_list);
> >> > +
> >> > +/*
> >> > + * Record the PCI IO range (expressed as CPU physical address + size).
> >> > + * Return a negative value if an error has occured, zero otherwise
> >> > + */
> >> > +int __weak pci_register_io_range(phys_addr_t addr, resource_size_t size)
> >>
> >> I don't understand the interface here. What's the mapping from CPU
> >> physical address to bus I/O port? For example, I have the following
> >> machine in mind:
> >>
> >> HWP0002:00: PCI Root Bridge (domain 0000 [bus 00-1b])
> >> HWP0002:00: memory-mapped IO port space [mem 0xf8010000000-0xf8010000fff]
> >> HWP0002:00: host bridge window [io 0x0000-0x0fff]
> >>
> >> HWP0002:09: PCI Root Bridge (domain 0001 [bus 00-1b])
> >> HWP0002:09: memory-mapped IO port space [mem 0xf8110000000-0xf8110000fff]
> >> HWP0002:09: host bridge window [io 0x1000000-0x1000fff] (PCI address [0x0-0xfff])
> >>
> >> The CPU physical memory [mem 0xf8010000000-0xf8010000fff] is translated by
> >> the bridge to I/O ports 0x0000-0x0fff on PCI bus 0000:00. Drivers use,
> >> e.g., "inb(0)" to access it.
> >>
> >> Similarly, [mem 0xf8110000000-0xf8110000fff] is translated by the second
> >> bridge to I/O ports 0x0000-0x0fff on PCI bus 0001:00. Drivers use
> >> "inb(0x1000000)" to access it.
> >
> > I guess you are thinking of the IA64 model here where you keep the virtual
> > I/O port numbers in a per-bus lookup table that gets accessed for each
> > inb() call. I've thought about this some more, and I believe there are good
> > reasons for sticking with the model used on arm32 and powerpc for the
> > generic OF implementation.
> >
> > The idea is that there is a single virtual memory range for all I/O port
> > mappings and we use the MMU to do the translation rather than computing
> > it manually in the inb() implemnetation. The main advantage is that all
> > functions used in device drivers to (potentially) access I/O ports
> > become trivial this way, which helps for code size and in some cases
> > (e.g. SoC-internal registers with a low latency) it may even be performance
> > relevant.
>
> My example is from ia64, but I'm not advocating for the lookup table.
> The point is that the hardware works similarly (at least for dense ia64
> I/O port spaces) in terms of mapping CPU physical addresses to PCI I/O
> space.
>
> I think my confusion is because your pci_register_io_range() and
> pci_addess_to_pci() implementations assume that every io_range starts at
> I/O port 0 on PCI (correct me if I'm wrong). I suspect that's why you
> don't save the I/O port number in struct io_range.
>
> Maybe that assumption is guaranteed by OF, but it doesn't hold for ACPI;
> ACPI can describe several I/O port apertures for a single bridge, each
> associated with a different CPU physical memory region.

That is actually a good catch, I've completely missed the fact that
io_range->pci_addr could be non-zero.

>
> If my speculation here is correct, a comment to the effect that each
> io_range corresponds to a PCI I/O space range that starts at 0 might be
> enough.
>
> If you did add a PCI I/O port number argument to pci_register_io_range(),
> we might be able to make an ACPI-based implementation of it. But I guess
> that could be done if/when anybody ever wants to do that.

No, I think you are right, the PCI I/O port number needs to be recorded. I
need to add that to pci_register_io_range().

>
> >> Here's what these look like in /proc/iomem and /proc/ioports (note that
> >> there are two resource structs for each memory-mapped IO port space: one
> >> IORESOURCE_MEM for the memory-mapped area (used only by the host bridge
> >> driver), and one IORESOURCE_IO for the I/O port space (this becomes the
> >> parent of a region used by a regular device driver):
> >>
> >> /proc/iomem:
> >> PCI Bus 0000:00 I/O Ports 00000000-00000fff
> >> PCI Bus 0001:00 I/O Ports 01000000-01000fff
>
> Oops, I forgot the actual physical memory addresses here, but you got
> the idea anyway. It should have been something like this:
>
> /proc/iomem:
> f8010000000-f8010000fff PCI Bus 0000:00 I/O Ports 00000000-00000fff
> f8110000000-f8110000fff PCI Bus 0001:00 I/O Ports 01000000-01000fff
>
> Bjorn
>

Thanks for being thorough with your review.

Best regards,
Liviu

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