Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Generate device tree node for pci devices

[Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@amd.com>]

On 9/13/22 00:00, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 8/29/22 16:43, Lizhi Hou wrote:
>> This patch series introduces OF overlay support for PCI devices which
>> primarily addresses two use cases. First, it provides a data driven method
>> to describe hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI endpoint and
>> hence can be accessed by the PCI host. An example device is Xilinx/AMD
>> Alveo PCIe accelerators. Second, it allows reuse of a OF compatible
>> driver -- often used in SoC platforms -- in a PCI host based system. An
>> example device is Microchip LAN9662 Ethernet Controller.
>>
>> This patch series consolidates previous efforts to define such an
>> infrastructure:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220305052304.726050-1-lizhi.hou@xilinx.com/
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427094502.456111-1-clement.leger@bootlin.com/
>>
>> Normally, the PCI core discovers PCI devices and their BARs using the
>> PCI enumeration process. However, the process does not provide a way to
>> discover the hardware peripherals that are present in a PCI device, and
>> which can be accessed through the PCI BARs. Also, the enumeration process
>> does not provide a way to associate MSI-X vectors of a PCI device with the
>> hardware peripherals that are present in the device. PCI device drivers
>> often use header files to describe the hardware peripherals and their
>> resources as there is no standard data driven way to do so. This patch
>> series proposes to use flattened device tree blob to describe the
>> peripherals in a data driven way. Based on previous discussion, using
>> device tree overlay is the best way to unflatten the blob and populate
>> platform devices. To use device tree overlay, there are three obvious
>> problems that need to be resolved.
>>
>> First, we need to create a base tree for non-DT system such as x86_64. A
>> patch series has been submitted for this:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220624034327.2542112-1-frowand.list@gmail.com/
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220216050056.311496-1-lizhi.hou@xilinx.com/
>>
>> Second, a device tree node corresponding to the PCI endpoint is required
>> for overlaying the flattened device tree blob for that PCI endpoint.
>> Because PCI is a self-discoverable bus, a device tree node is usually not
>> created for PCI devices. This series adds support to generate a device
>> tree node for a PCI device which advertises itself using PCI quirks
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> Third, we need to generate device tree nodes for PCI bridges since a child
>> PCI endpoint may choose to have a device tree node created.
>>
>> This patch series is made up of two patches.
>>
>> The first patch is adding OF interface to allocate an OF node. It is copied
>> from:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220620104123.341054-5-clement.leger@bootlin.com/
>>
>> The second patch introduces a kernel option, CONFIG_PCI_OF. When the option
>> is turned on, the kernel will generate device tree nodes for all PCI
>> bridges unconditionally. The patch also shows how to use the PCI quirks
>> infrastructure, DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_FINAL to generate a device tree node for
>> a device. Specifically, the patch generates a device tree node for Xilinx
>> Alveo U50 PCIe accelerator device. The generated device tree nodes do not
>> have any property. Future patches will add the necessary properties.
>>
>> Clément Léger (1):
>>    of: dynamic: add of_node_alloc()
>>
>> Lizhi Hou (1):
>>    pci: create device tree node for selected devices
>>
>>   drivers/of/dynamic.c        |  50 +++++++++++++----
>>   drivers/pci/Kconfig         |  11 ++++
>>   drivers/pci/bus.c           |   2 +
>>   drivers/pci/msi/irqdomain.c |   6 +-
>>   drivers/pci/of.c            | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   drivers/pci/pci-driver.c    |   3 +-
>>   drivers/pci/pci.h           |  16 ++++++
>>   drivers/pci/quirks.c        |  11 ++++
>>   drivers/pci/remove.c        |   1 +
>>   include/linux/of.h          |   7 +++
>>   10 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
> The patch description leaves out the most important piece of information.
>
> The device located at the PCI endpoint is implemented via FPGA
>     - which is programmed after Linux boots (or somewhere late in the boot process)
>        - (A) and thus can not be described by static data available pre-boot because
>              it is dynamic (and the FPGA program will often change while the Linux
>              kernel is already booted
>        - (B) can be described by static data available pre-boot because the FPGA
>              program will always be the same for this device on this system
>
> I am not positive what part of what I wrote above is correct and would appreciate
> some confirmation of what is correct or incorrect.

There are 2 series devices rely on this patch:

     1) Xilinx Alveo Accelerator cards (FPGA based device)

     2) lan9662 PCIe card

           please see: 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220427094502.456111-1-clement.leger@bootlin.com/

For Xilinx Alveo device, it is (A). The FPGA partitions can be 
programmed dynamically after boot.


Thanks,

Lzhi

>
> -Frank