Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2]

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:27:04PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Some machines have a different address space on the PCI bus from the
> > CPU's bus.  This is currently fixed up in pcibios_fixup_bus().  However,
> > this is not called for hotplug devices.  Calling pcibios_fixup_bus() when
> > a device is hotplugged onto a bus is also wrong as it would attempt to
> > fixup devices that have already been fixed up with potentially horrific
> > consequences.
> 
> This logic makes sense only if you have sort of firmware which
> properly initializes the hotplug devices

Yes, this is the case for the ACPI hotplug driver, for example.

> so I think that the fixup
> should belong in that particular hotplug driver (or architecture).

*sigh*.  Greg rejected a patch that did that.  He wanted it fixed
more generally.

> > This patch teaches the generic PCI layer that there may be different
> > address spaces, and converts from bus views to cpu views when reading
> > from BARs.  Some drivers (eg sym2, acpiphp) need to go back the other
> > way, so it also introduces the inverse operation.
> 
> This one already exists - pcibios_resource_to_bus().

I can't use it in the symbios driver because it only exists on alpha,
arm, mips, parisc, ppc, ppc64, sparc64 and v850.  It doesn't exist on
i386, ia64, x86_64, arm26, cris, h8300, m32r, sh, sh64 or sparc.

Perhaps from your point of view this patch makes more sense as a cleanup.
Rather than having all the duplicate code in all the architecture
pcibios_fixup_device and pcibios_resource_to_bus, they can implement
pci_bus_to_phys and pci_phys_to_bus.

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