Re: [PATCH v2 11/17] PCI: dwc: Simplify in/outbound iATU setup methods

Serge Semin
2022-05-12T19:22:43Z

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:31:24PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 12:46:32AM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > From maintainability and scalability points of view it has been wrong to
> > use different iATU inbound and outbound regions accessors for the viewport
> > and unrolled versions of the iATU CSRs mapping. Seeing the particular iATU
> > region-wise registers layout is almost fully compatible for different
> > IP-core versions, there were no much points in splitting the code up that
> > way since it was possible to implement a common windows setup methods for
> > both viewport and unrolled iATU CSRs spaces. While what we can observe in
> > the current driver implementation of these methods, is a lot of code
> > duplication, which consequently worsen the code readability,
> > maintainability and scalability. Note the current implementation is a bit
> > more performant than the one suggested in this commit since it implies
> > having less MMIO accesses. But the gain just doesn't worth having the
> > denoted difficulties especially seeing the iATU setup methods are mainly
> > called on the DW PCIe controller and peripheral devices initialization
> > stage.
> >
> > Here we suggest to move the iATU viewport and unrolled CSR access
> > specifics in the dw_pcie_readl_atu() and dw_pcie_writel_atu() method, and
> > convert the dw_pcie_prog_outbound_atu() and
> > dw_pcie_prog_{ep_}inbound_atu() functions to being generic instead of
> > having a different methods for each viewport and unrolled types of iATU
> > CSRs mapping. Nothing complex really. First of all the dw_pcie_readl_atu()
> > and dw_pcie_writel_atu() are converted to accept relative iATU CSRs
> > address together with the iATU region direction (inbound or outbound) and
> > region index. If DW PCIe controller doesn't have the unrolled iATU CSRs
> > space, then the accessors will need to activate a iATU viewport based on
> > the specified direction and index, otherwise a base address for the
> > corresponding region CSRs will be calculated by means of the
> > PCIE_ATU_UNROLL_BASE() macro. The CSRs macro have been modified in
> > accordance with that logic in the pcie-designware.h header file.
> >
> > The rest of the changes in this commit just concern converting the iATU
> > in-/out-bound setup methods and iATU regions detection procedure to be
> > compatible with the new accessors semantics. As a result we've dropped the
> > no more required dw_pcie_prog_outbound_atu_unroll(),
> > dw_pcie_prog_inbound_atu_unroll() and dw_pcie_iatu_detect_regions_unroll()
> > methods.
> >
> > Note aside with the denoted code improvements, there is an additional
> > positive side effect of this change. If at some point an atomic iATU
> > configs setup procedure is required, it will be possible to be done with
> > no much effort just by adding the synchronization into the
> > dw_pcie_readl_atu() and dw_pcie_writel_atu() accessors.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@baikalelectronics.ru>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Changelog v2:
> > - Move the iATU region selection procedure into a helper function (@Rob).
> > - Simplify the iATU region selection procedure by recalculating the base
> > address only if the space is unrolled. The iATU viewport base address
> > is saved in the pci->atu_base field from now.
> > ---
> > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.c | 293 ++++++-------------
> > drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware.h | 48 ++-
>

> In this patch, you also need to fix "pcie-tegra194-acpi.c" driver that makes
> use of the removed macros.

Right. I've missed the ACPI part since it isn't available on my
platform. Thanks for noticing that.

-Sergey

>
> Thanks,
> Mani
>
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