Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] arm: kernel: fix pci_mmap_page_range() offset calculation

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-10-15T22:29:40Z

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 01:03:41PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> ARM relies on the standard implementation of pci_resource_to_user()
> which actually is an identity map and exports to user space
> PCI memory resources as they are stored in PCI devices resources (ie BARs)
> which represent CPU physical addresses (fixed-up using BUS to CPU
> address conversions) not PCI bus addresses.

This paragraph seems wrong.

It first says that PCI memory resources contain the same values that the
PCI device has in its BAR. It then goes on to say that they are CPU
physical addresses. That is not true.

For example, DC21285 systems always have done this as: the PCI bars
contain the _bus_ addresses, which tend to be in the range 0 to
0x7fffffff. These correspond with a CPU physical address of
0x80000000 to 0xffffffff. The PCI bus resources for IOMEM resources
contains the CPU physical address of the mapping.

> On platforms where the mapping between CPU and BUS address is not a 1:1
> mapping this is erroneous, in that an additional shift is applied to
> an already fixed-up offset passed from userspace.

Yes, I think this is a correct patch inspite of the description. :)

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