[PATCH v3 11/12] ARM: mvebu: Relocate Armada 370 PCIe device tree nodes

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Jun 19 08:11:58 EDT 2013


On Wednesday 19 June 2013, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Arnd,
> 
> Going through this a couple questions came out...
> 
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:35:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 June 2013, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> > > +
> > > +                       ranges =
> > > +                              <0x82000000 0 0x40000    0xffff0001 0x40000 0 0x00002000
> > > +                               0x82000000 0 0x80000    0xffff0001 0x80000 0 0x00002000
> > > +                               0x82000000 0 0xe0000000 0xffff0002 0          0 0x08000000
> > > +                               0x81000000 0 0          0xffff0002 0x8000000  0 0x00100000>;
> > 
> > As pointed out on IRC, this is not a good representation of the memory space,
> > since it requires a non-zero sys->mem_offset, and it conflicts with the straight
> > mapping I suggested.
> > 
> > I think it should be
> > 
> >                                0x82000000 0 0xe0000000 0xffff0002 0  0xe0000000 0x08000000
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> > 
> > if we want to encode the aperture in the ranges property here, i.e. have
> > a 1:1 mapping between PCI memory space and MBUS space, and in mbus,
> > you need the corresponding
> > 
> > -                           0xffff0002 0 0xe0000000 0x8100000
> > +                           0xffff0002 0xe0000000 0xe0000000 0x8100000
> 
> ... I obviously got something wrong, but I thought you said that
> this change allowed to *not* have any mbus-node ranges translation.

I wasn't making a specific requirement here on whether you have that
in the mbus ranges or not, but if you put it in there, you have to adapt
the contents as above.



> > so that mbus actually translates the right addresses. You could also
> > have the PCI memory space start at 0, which would mean
> > 
> >                                0x82000000 0 0 0xffff0002 0  0 0x08000000
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >                               0xffff0002 0 0xe0000000 0x8100000
> 
> Mmm.. and why is this option acceptable?

As I explained on IRC, there is no requirement to pick a specific bus
aperture. The only two sensible choices are to make the bus address
the same as the CPU address, or to make the bus address start at 0,
which is what this does.

> > 
> > Note that the driver doesn't actually handle the generic case correctly, you would
> > need to apply this patch
> >
> 
> This patch does not apply. I tried to understand what you did, but I'm
> confused by the fact I don't need to apply any patch to make it work
> on my boxes, using your proposed ranges translations.
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c b/drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c
> > index 13a633b..aa674f4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pci-mvebu.c
> > @@ -790,6 +790,7 @@ static int __init mvebu_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> >  		}
> >  		if (restype == IORESOURCE_MEM) {
> >  			of_pci_range_to_resource(&range, np, &pcie->mem);
> > +			sys->mem_offset = range.cpu_addr - range.pci_addr;
> >  			pcie->mem.name = "MEM";
> >  		}
> >  	}
> > 
> > to deal with the generic case where the bus address is different from the
> > CPU address.

This patch is needed only if you change the ranges to have the bus
aperture start at 0. However, if we pick a different way to specify
the aperture than putting it into both ranges properties, that point
is moot, since you wouldn't use of_pci_range_to_resource here
anyway.

	Arnd



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