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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Changing pci_iounmap to take 'bar' argument
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:55:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117083357.9076.49.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117081814.9076.38.camel@gaston>


> > Ok, just wanted some feedback from you. Some people prefer that I whack
> > some "token" in the vitual address at map time, or that I compare the
> > vaddr at unmap time with all PCI busses IO ranges or that sort of ugly
> > thing, it sounds to me simpler to just pass along the bar number, but I
> > wanted your and Greg's ack first.
> 
> Oh, and MIPS seems to be broken here ... it's like ppc, it's ioremap'ing
> MMIO and just using an existing mapped stuff for IO, but unconditionally
> iounmap's on pci_iounmap()... unless there is some arch black magic in
> there, that seems broken. Ralph, should I fix it while I'm at it ?

Hrm... in fact, It complicates life for drivers. There already a few
using it, and there are cases, like sym53c8xx_2, that do something like

	int bar = dodgy_logic_to_find_what_bar_to_use();

	foo = pci_iomap(dev, bar, pci_resource_len(dev, bar));

And in a completely different function, a simple

	pci_iounmap(dev, foo);

To pass the bar in there requires to either add a field to the driver
"instance" structure or to reproduce the "dodgy logic".

I've fixed them all, but I don't like the patch that much.

It may be simpler indeed for me to actually only complicate the ppc &
ppc64 pci_iounmap() implementation and have it compare the virtual
address against known PCI IO spaces...

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-26  4:07 [RFC] Changing pci_iounmap to take 'bar' argument Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-26  4:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-26  4:27   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-26  4:30     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-05-26  4:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-05-26 15:21         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-28 20:08           ` Russell King
2005-05-26 22:53 ` Greg KH

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