[PATCH 0/5] Modularize PCI_DW related drivers.

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Mon Feb 29 01:29:35 PST 2016


Hi Arnd,

On Thursday 25 February 2016 02:05 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2016 13:43:48 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> Hi Arnd,
>>
>> On Wednesday 24 February 2016 02:34 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 24 February 2016 11:39:26 Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Monday 08 February 2016 05:30 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>>>> In a recent patch series that aimed to remove code related to module
>>>>> unload for PCI support that was simply non modular, the discussion
>>>>> led to people wanting to keep the code and push towards taking the
>>>>> steps needed to support moving it towards tristate instead[1].
>>>>>
>>>>> Here, we take step one, which is simply making the Kconfig change
>>>>> and then dealing with any build fallout or modpost fallout.  What
>>>>> amounts to essentially a sanity build test.  To be clear, these
>>>>> have not been runtime validated; that will need to be done by those
>>>>> with access to real hardware.  However, the changes are not anything
>>>>> that should disrupt any existing built-in validation, so real world
>>>>> users should not be impacted by this change.
>>>>>
>>>>> We start with a smaller family of drivers; those that actively select
>>>>> PCI_DW, as a nice self contained group to test the waters and see if
>>>>> everyone is still good with this approach before investing more time
>>>>> on a wider scale to other pci/host/ code blocks.
>>>>>
>>>>> As such the drivers here share a dependency on having the same group
>>>>> of functions exported in order to successfully complete modpost.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition, we have to stray outside drivers/pci to add exports
>>>>> in two places; once for an ARM fault handler, and once for an OF
>>>>> variable.
>>>>>
>>>>> The pci-keystone-dw.c instance was handled separately because it
>>>>> consists of two source files that need their own group of driver
>>>>> specific exports above and beyond the "shared" ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then we convert the Kconfig for all remaining at once; we could have
>>>>> done it on a per driver basis for ease of revert if anyone really
>>>>> objects, but since it would be a one line change, that seemed like
>>>>> not a real concern.
>>>>>
>>>>> Build testing was done on the linux-next tree for arm allmodconfig.
>>>>
>>>> I took these patches and gave a test with DRA7xx board. As expected there was
>>>> no issues when the driver was built-in. However when I tried to rmmod/modprobe
>>>> I got this error [2].
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing this!
>>>
>>>> [2] -> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/15185894/
>>>
>>> It looks like you are hitting the BUG_ON() in ioremap_pte_range()
>>> that checks if a virtual address already has a page table entry,
>>> which in turn is probably a result of dw_pcie_host_init()
>>> calling pci_remap_iospace() again for the same memory area
>>> it has called the last time, and no cleanup done inbetween.
>>>
>>> Could you try adding a pci_unmap_iospace() and calling that
>>> in the device remove function? Let me know if you need help
>>> implementing it.
>>
>> That didn't look straight forward to me :-( I'll try to see this next week. Any
>> help from you will make it simpler for me.
> 
> I tried writing the function now, and I think it's actually quite easy:
> 
> void pci_unmap_iospace(const struct resource *res)
> {
> #if defined(PCI_IOBASE) && defined(CONFIG_MMU)
>         return iounmap(PCI_IOBASE + res->start);
> #endif
> }
> 
> You just need to pass the same resource in here htat you pass into
> pci_remap_iospace().

I still seem to get the abort in ioremap_page_range().

Here's the patch I used [3] and here's the kernel log [4].

[3] -> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/15241614/
[4] -> http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/15241637/

Thanks
Kishon



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