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

Will Deacon
2014-07-02T11:22:22Z

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:43:28PM +0100, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> Some architectures do not have a simple view of the PCI I/O space
> and instead use a range of CPU addresses that map to bus addresses. For
> some architectures these ranges will be expressed by OF bindings
> in a device tree file.
>
> Introduce a pci_register_io_range() helper function with a generic
> implementation that can be used by such architectures to keep track
> of the I/O ranges described by the PCI bindings. If the PCI_IOBASE
> macro is not defined that signals lack of support for PCI and we
> return an error.

[...]

> +/*
> + * 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)
> +{
> +#ifdef PCI_IOBASE
> + struct io_range *res;
> + resource_size_t allocated_size = 0;
> +
> + /* check if the range hasn't been previously recorded */
> + list_for_each_entry(res, &io_range_list, list) {
> + if (addr >= res->start && addr + size <= res->start + size)
> + return 0;
> + allocated_size += res->size;
> + }
> +
> + /* range not registed yet, check for available space */
> + if (allocated_size + size - 1 > IO_SPACE_LIMIT)
> + return -E2BIG;
> +
> + /* add the range to the list */
> + res = kzalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!res)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + res->start = addr;
> + res->size = size;
> +
> + list_add_tail(&res->list, &io_range_list);
> +
> + return 0;

Hopefully a stupid question, but how is this serialised? I'm just surprised
that adding to and searching a list are sufficient, unless there's a big
lock somewhere.

Will