[PATCH v8] PCI: Xilinx-NWL-PCIe: Added support for Xilinx NWL PCIe Host Controller

[Ray Jui]

On 11/17/2015 5:55 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 17/11/15 13:27, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 04:59:39 +0000
>>> Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On 11/16/2015 7:14 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/11/15 06:33, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
>>>>>>> Adding PCIe Root Port driver for Xilinx PCIe NWL bridge IP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku at xilinx.com>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ravi Kiran Gummaluri <rgummal at xilinx.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> Added logic to allocate contiguous hwirq in nwl_irq_domain_alloc
>>>>> function.
>>>>>>> Moved MSI functionality to separate functions.
>>>>>>> Changed error return values.
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>    .../devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-pcie.txt    |   68 ++
>>>>>>>    drivers/pci/host/Kconfig                           |   16 +-
>>>>>>>    drivers/pci/host/Makefile                          |    1 +
>>>>>>>    drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c                 | 1062
>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>    4 files changed, 1144 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>    create mode 100644
>>>>>>> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-
>>>>> pcie.txt
>>>>>>>    create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> +static int nwl_pcie_enable_msi(struct nwl_pcie *pcie, struct
>>>>>>> +pci_bus
>>>>>>> +*bus) {
>>>>>>> +	struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(pcie-
>>>> dev);
>>>>>>> +	struct nwl_msi *msi = &pcie->msi;
>>>>>>> +	unsigned long base;
>>>>>>> +	int ret;
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	mutex_init(&msi->lock);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	/* Check for msii_present bit */
>>>>>>> +	ret = nwl_bridge_readl(pcie, I_MSII_CAPABILITIES) &
>>> MSII_PRESENT;
>>>>>>> +	if (!ret) {
>>>>>>> +		dev_err(pcie->dev, "MSI not present\n");
>>>>>>> +		ret = -EIO;
>>>>>>> +		goto err;
>>>>>>> +	}
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	/* Enable MSII */
>>>>>>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie,
>>> I_MSII_CONTROL) |
>>>>>>> +			  MSII_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	/* Enable MSII status */
>>>>>>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie,
>>> I_MSII_CONTROL) |
>>>>>>> +			  MSII_STATUS_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +	/* setup AFI/FPCI range */
>>>>>>> +	msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>>>>>>> +	base = virt_to_phys((void *)msi->pages);
>>>>>>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, lower_32_bits(base),
>>> I_MSII_BASE_LO);
>>>>>>> +	nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, upper_32_bits(base),
>>> I_MSII_BASE_HI);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, you still haven't answered my question as to why you need to
>>>>>> waste a page of memory here, and why putting a device address
>>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As this is (to the best of my knowledge) the only driver doing so,
>>>>>> I'd really like you to explain the rational behind this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Might not be the only driver doing so after I start sending out
>>>>> patches for the iProc MSI support (soon), :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how it works for the Xilinx NWL controller, which
>>>>> Bharat should be able to help to explain. But for the iProc MSI
>>>>> controller, there's no device I/O memory reserved for MSI posted writes
>>> in the ASIC.
>>>>> Therefore one needs to reserve host memory for these writes.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Our SoC doesn't reserve any memory for MSI, hence we need to assign a
>>>> memory space for it out of RAM.
>>>
>>> Question to both of you: Does the write make it to memory? Or is it sampled
>>> by the bridge and dropped?
>>>
>> No, write will not do any modification in memory, it is consumed by bridge.
>
> Then you do not need to allocate memory at all. Use whatever memory you
> already have. CC-ing Robin, as this may have interaction with the SMMU.
>
>>
>>> What happens if you replace the page in RAM with a dummy address?
>> What do you mean by dummy address ?
>
> Any random (and suitably aligned) address. 0x00000deadbeef000 for example.

In our case, I'm pretty sure the writes make it to memory (RAM). I can 
try replacing it with a dummy address, but I'm pretty sure that will not 
work.

Thanks,

Ray

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	M.
>