Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: Move allocate and map page for msi out of dw_pcie_msi_init()

Rob Herring
2020-09-24T13:28:44Z

On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 5:00 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 08:28, Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently, dw_pcie_msi_init() allocates and maps page for msi, then
> > program the PCIE_MSI_ADDR_LO and PCIE_MSI_ADDR_HI. The Root Complex
> > may lose power during suspend-to-RAM, so when we resume, we want to
> > redo the latter but not the former. If designware based driver (for
> > example, pcie-tegra194.c) calls dw_pcie_msi_init() in resume path, the
> > previous msi page will be leaked.
> >
> > Move the allocate and map msi page from dw_pcie_msi_init() to
> > dw_pcie_host_init() to fix this problem.
> >
> > Fixes: 56e15a238d92 ("PCI: tegra: Add Tegra194 PCIe support")
> > Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com>
>
> Why do you allocate a page for this in the first place? Isn't
> PCIE_MSI_ADDR_HI:PCIE_MSI_ADDR_LO simply a magic DMA address that
> never gets forwarded across to the CPU side of the host bridge, and
> triggers a SPI instead, which gets handled by reading
> PCIE_MSI_INTR0_STATUS ?

My question too after digging into this some more. I've asked the
question on the thread that further complicated all this changing from
virt_to_phys() to dma_map_page()[1].

> Couldn't you just map the zero page instead?

Why a page even? You could use PCIE_MSI_ADDR_LO address itself even.
Or just an address in the driver data which is what some other drivers
do.

Rob

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20200923231846.GA1499246@bogus/