[PATCH V2 00/23] MMCONFIG refactoring and support for ARM64 PCI hostbridge init based on ACPI

[Tomasz Nowicki]

On 21.12.2015 13:10, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:56:39PM +0000, okaya at codeaurora.org wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Here is what I have as an IO resource.
>>
>> 		QWORDIO(			//Consumed-And-produced resource
>> 			ResourceProducer,	// bit 0 of general flags is 0
>> 			MinFixed,		// Range is fixed
>> 			MaxFixed,		// Range is fixed
>> 			PosDecode,
>> 			EntireRange,
>> 			0x0000,			// Granularity
>> 			0x1000,		// Min, 0 is not accepted
>> 			0x10FFF,		// Max
>> 			0x8FFFFFEF000,	// Translation
>> 			0x10000,		// Range Length
>> 			,, PI00
>> 		 )
>>
>> I don't have any type specified.
>>
>> I agree with Lorenzo's assessment. The min and max values represent the
>> PCI IO bus addresses. The translation offset is added to these values to
>> figure out the CPU view of the PCI IO range.
>>
>> The endpoints BAR addresses are programmed with IO addresses ranging
>> between 0x1000 and 0x10FFF for this example above.
>>
>> Here is another question. Chris Covington and I asked this question on a
>> private email to you but we didn't hear back.
>>
>> We were referring to a Linaro IO hack patch as we were not sure whether
>> this was a limitation of the hack or a general expectation for ARM64 PCI
>> in general.
>>
>> I'll repeat it here.
>>
>> I have multiple root ports with the same IO port configuration in the
>> current ACPI table.
>>
>> Root port 0 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF
>> Root port 1 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF
>> Root port 2 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF
>
> It is fine. You end up mapping for each of those a 4k window of the
> virtual address space allocated to IO and that's what you will have in
> the kernel PCI resources (not in the HW BARs though). If that was a problem
> it would be even for the current DT host controllers eg:
>
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/apm/apm-storm.dtsi
>
> it should not be (again I will let Arnd comment on this since he may be
> aware of issues encountered on other arches/platforms).
>

Root port 0 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF
Root port 1 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF
Root port 2 = IO range 0x1000-0x10FFF

If above ranges are mapped into different CPU windows, then yes, it is fine.

Tomasz