[PATCH 13/15] ARM: make mach/io.h include optional

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 09:36:08 EST 2012


On 02/14/2012 02:04 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 February 2012, Rob Herring wrote:
>> Arnd,
>>
>> On 02/13/2012 08:03 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Monday 13 February 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:43:26PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>>> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Add a kconfig option NEED_MACH_IO_H to conditionally include mach/io.h.
>>>>>
>>>>> Basing this on CONFIG_PCI and CONFIG_ISA doesn't quite work. Most ISA
>>>>> platforms don't need mach/io.h, but ebsa110 does.
>>>>
>>>> This is architecturally wrong.  If you have ISA, and your __io() macro
>>>> is essentially a 1:1 translation, you're asking for ISA drivers to
>>>> scribble on whatever is at virtual address 0-64K.  Too bad if that
>>>> happens to be where your CPU vectors are stored, you'll lose control
>>>> of the CPU in that case.
>>>
>>> Right. I still think it should be conditional on PCI || ISA || PCMCIA,
>>> not introducing a new kconfig symbol, and the next step should be to
>>> unify the __io() implementations for the platforms that need them.
>>
>> As we discussed at Connect, that was my original intent. However, there
>> are a couple of issues as NEED_MACH_IO_H is not exactly equivalent to
>> PCI || ISA || PCMCIA.
>>
>> There are a few platforms which still need io.h for custom accessor
>> functions: rpc, ixp4xx, s3c2410, and ebsa110.
> 
> I've tried to interpret what is there, please correct me if this is wrong:
> 
> RPC and ebsa110 have ISA, or some twisted version of that. I believe
> RPC doesn't select CONFIG_ISA because it has no actual ISA slots but
> it still uses legacy ISA I/O and we might just select it anyway.
> 
> s3c24xx seems to have ISA in a similar way on the "bast" machine,
> while the setup code for that got copied into some platforms that
> don't really require it.
> 
> ixp4xx has PCI, but does not always use direct MMIO to access the
> memory or I/O spaces.
> 
> I guess the only way we can ever make these ones use a common header
> file (in case we care) by letting them go through an indirect
> struct io_ops { u8 (*inb)(int); void (*outb)(u8, int); ... };,
> but we might not care enough.
> 
>> Also, a few platforms that
>> only select ISA don't do any translation in __io(). These are sa1100,
>> clps711x, and pxa. My understanding is that is wrong.
> 
> sa1100 has pcmcia slots that use their own method (setting io_offset)
> of redirecting the i/o space into the right location. As Russell
> mentioned, this is broken if you load an ISA device driver that
> uses hardcoded port numbers, or as I might add when you use /dev/port.
> 
> pxa seems to do the same as sa1100 for PCMCIA and PCI, but I can't figure
> out what they do for ISA. I suspect they only enable that in order to
> get ISA device drivers for PCMCIA based add-on cards.
> 
> clps711x for all I can tell is broken as you say.
> 
> I think omap1 and at91 fit into the same category as sa1100 and pxa
> regarding pcmcia. All four can in theory be converted to use a
> common virtual mapping as we want to have for PCI.
> 
>> If we use CONFIG_PCI, then we have to move over all PCI enabled
>> platforms at once. With a separate kconfig option, then we can move
>> platforms one by one. Some are legacy and we may not want to move. This
>> also helped with omap, but Tony has now fixed it.
> 
> We could also generalize the implementation from tegra, which seems
> reasonable as a start:
> 
> 
> #define IO_SPACE_LIMIT 0xffff
> 
> #if defined(CONFIG_ISA) || defined(CONFIG_PCCARD)
> #include <mach/io.h>
> #elif defined(CONFIG_PCI)
> extern void __iomem *pci_io_base;
> 
> static inline void __iomem *__io(unsigned long addr)
> {
>         return pci_io_base + (addr & IO_SPACE_LIMIT);

But don't we want a constant pci_io_base? This would certainly be a
quicker conversion, but I don't think we want to do it twice.

> }
> #else
> static inline void __iomem *__io(unsigned long addr)
> {
>         return NULL;
> }
> #endif
> #define __io(a) __io(a)
> 
> Out of the platforms supporting PCI right now, we currently have these three classes:
> 
> 1. portable, but using different virtual addresses:
> arch/arm/mach-integrator/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)                      ((void __iomem *)(PCI_IO_VADDR + (a)))
> arch/arm/mach-ixp23xx/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(p)         ((void __iomem*)((p) + IXP23XX_PCI_IO_VIRT))
> arch/arm/mach-ixp2000/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(p)                 ((void __iomem *)((p)+IXP2000_PCI_IO_VIRT_BASE))
> arch/arm/mach-shark/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)                 ((void __iomem *)(0xe0000000 + (a)))
> arch/arm/mach-footbridge/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)                      ((void __iomem *)(PCIO_BASE + (a)))
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/include/mach/io.h:static inline void __iomem *__io(unsigned long addr)
> arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/include/mach/io.h:static inline void __iomem *__io(unsigned long addr)
> arch/arm/mach-dove/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)    ((void __iomem *)(((a) - DOVE_PCIE0_IO_BUS_BASE) + \
> 
> 2. Does not map the I/O space, or does not use it -- I cannot see how
>    any of these use PIO based PCI devices at all, probably broken already:
> arch/arm/mach-cns3xxx/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)                 __typesafe_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/include/mach/io.h:#define  __io(v)         __typesafe_io(v)
> arch/arm/mach-ks8695/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)          __typesafe_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-orion5x/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)                 __typesafe_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-sa1100/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)          __typesafe_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)             __typesafe_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-versatile/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a)               __typesafe_io(a)
> 
> 3. scary multi-way translation, needs someone to really understand (Nico?, Lennert?)
> arch/arm/mach-iop32x/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(p)          ((void __iomem *)IOP3XX_PCI_IO_PHYS_TO_VIRT(p))
> arch/arm/mach-iop33x/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(p)          ((void __iomem *)IOP3XX_PCI_IO_PHYS_TO_VIRT(p))
> arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/include/mach/io.h:#define __io(a) __iop13xx_io(a)
> arch/arm/mach-mv78xx0/include/mach/io.h:static inline void __iomem *__io(unsigned long addr)
> 
> I think if we can figure out the third category, this should all become
> fairly easy for PCI based platforms.
> 

This looks correct AFAICT.

We could just call the 3rd category legacy and move on.

Rob

> 
> 	Arnd




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