Re: [PATCH v2 02/11] mm: ioremap: fixup the physical address and page prot

Baoquan He
2022-09-12T02:56:09Z

Hi Christophe,

On 08/28/22 at 07:10pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> On 08/23/22 at 07:03pm, Christophe Leroy wrote:
......
> > >>>> Is it really the best approach ? Wouldn't it be better to have helpers
> > >>>> to do that, those helpers being called by the ioremap_prot(), instead of
> > >>>> doing it inside the arch_ioremap() function ?
> > >>>
> > >>> This is suggested too by Alexander during his v1 reviewing. I tried, but
> > >>> feel the current way taken in this patchset is better. Because not all
> > >>> architecutres need the address fix up, only parisc, and only few need
> > >>> adjust the 'prot'. Introducing other helpers seems too much, that only
> > >>> increases the complexity of of ioremap() and the generic GENERIC_IOREMAP
> > >>> method for people to understand and take.
> > >>
> > >> I can't understand. Why is it difficult to do something like:
> > >>
> > >> #ifndef ioremap_adjust_prot
> > >> static inline unsigned long ioremap_adjust_prot(unsigned long flags)
> > >> {
> > >> return flags;
> > >> }
> > >> #endif
> > >>
> > >> Then for arc you do
> > >>
> > >> static inline unsigned long ioremap_adjust_prot(unsigned long flags)
> > >> {
> > >> return pgprot_val(pgprot_noncached(__pgprot(flags)));
> > >> }
> > >> #define ioremap_adjust_prot ioremap_adjust_prot
> > >
> > > My thinking is we have four things to do in the added hookers.
> > > 1) check if we should do ioremap on ARCHes. If not, return NULL from
> > > ioremap_prot();
> > > 2) handling the mapping io address specifically on ARCHes, e.g arc,
> > > ia64, s390;
> > > 3) the original physical address passed into ioremap_prot() need be
> > > fixed up, e.g arc;
> > > 4) the 'prot' passed into ioremap_prot() need be adjusted, e.g on arc
> > > and xtensa.
> > >
> > > With Kefeng's patches, the case 1) is handled with introduced
> > > ioremap_allowed()/iounmap_allowed(). In this patchset, what I do is
> > > rename the hooks as arch_ioremap() and arch_iounmap(), then put case 1),
> > > 2), 3), 4) handling into arch_ioremap(). Adding helpers to cover each
> > > case is not difficult from my side. I worry that as time goes by, those
> > > several hooks my cause issue, e.g if a new adjustment need be done,
> > > should we introduce a new helper or make do with the existed hook; how
> > >
> > > When I investigated this, one arch_ioremap() looks not complicated
> > > since not all ARCHes need cover all above 4 cases. That's why I finally
> > > choose one hook. I am open to new idea, please let me know if we should
> > > change it to introduce several different helpers.
> > >
> >
> > A new idea that would have my preference would be to do just like we did
> > with arch_get_unmapped_area(). Look at
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0-rc1/source/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/slice.c#L638
> > and https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0-rc1/source/mm/mmap.c#L2131
> >
> > Instead of having the generic that calls the arch specific, make it the
> > other way round, have the arch specific call the generic after doing its
> > specialties.
>
> This sounds good. I made a draft patch to change code in generic code
> part, just showing what it looks like.
>
> Both arch_ioremap() way and the arch sepcific call the generic way look
> good to me. Just it will take less effort for me to continue the
> arch_ioremap() way. I would like to hear Christoph's opinion since he
> introduced the GENERIC_IOREMAP method and suggested the earlier
> arch_ioremap() way and change in this patchset.

I will make another round change and post. Since Christoph doesn't
reply, I would like to continue with the existing
arch_ioremap/arch_iounmap() hooks way if you don't have strong opinion
on the new idea to reintroduce ioremap().

>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io.h b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> index 68a8117b30fa..4bc3e18c475f 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> @@ -1047,35 +1047,18 @@ static inline void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr)
> #elif defined(CONFIG_GENERIC_IOREMAP)
> #include <linux/pgtable.h>
>
> -/*
> - * Arch code can implement the following two hooks when using GENERIC_IOREMAP
> - * arch_ioremap() return a bool,
> - * - IS_ERR means return an error
> - * - NULL means continue to remap
> - * - a non-NULL, non-IS_ERR pointer is returned directly
> - * arch_iounmap() return a bool,
> - * - 0 means continue to vunmap
> - * - error code means skip vunmap and return directly
> - */
> -#ifndef arch_ioremap
> -#define arch_ioremap arch_ioremap
> -static inline void __iomem *arch_ioremap(phys_addr_t *paddr, size_t size,
> - unsigned long *prot_val)
> -{
> - return NULL;
> -}
> -#endif
> +void __iomem *
> +generic_ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, unsigned long prot);
>
> -#ifndef arch_iounmap
> -#define arch_iounmap arch_iounmap
> -static inline int arch_iounmap(void __iomem *addr)
> +#ifndef ioremap_prot
> +#define ioremap_prot ioremap_prot
> +void __iomem *
> +ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, unsigned long prot);
> {
> - return 0;
> + return generic_ioremap_prot(phys_addr, size, prot);
> }
> #endif
>
> -void __iomem *ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> - unsigned long prot);
> void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr);
>
> #ifndef ioremap
> diff --git a/mm/ioremap.c b/mm/ioremap.c
> index 7914b5cf5b78..87d51003dee6 100644
> --- a/mm/ioremap.c
> +++ b/mm/ioremap.c
> @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
> #include <linux/io.h>
> #include <linux/export.h>
>
> -void __iomem *ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size,
> - unsigned long prot)
> +void __iomem *
> +generic_ioremap_prot(phys_addr_t phys_addr, size_t size, unsigned long prot)
> {
> unsigned long offset, vaddr;
> phys_addr_t last_addr;
>