[PATCH V3 18/21] ACPI, PCI: Refine the way to handle translation_offset for ACPI resources

Hanjun Guo hanjun.guo at linaro.org
Thu Jan 28 02:23:24 PST 2016


Hi Lorenzo,

On 2016/1/19 20:20, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Gerry,
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:21:04PM +0100, Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
>> From: Liu Jiang <jiang.liu at linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Some architectures, such as IA64 and ARM64, have no instructions to
>> directly access PCI IO ports, so they map PCI IO ports into PCI MMIO
>> address space. Typically PCI host bridges on those architectures take
>> the responsibility to map (translate) PCI IO port transactions into
>> Memory-Mapped IO transactions. ACPI specification provides support
>> of such a usage case by using resource translation_offset.
>>
>> But current ACPI resource parsing interface isn't neutral enough,
>> it still has some special logic for IA64. So refine the ACPI resource
>> parsing interface and IA64 code to neutrally handle translation_offset
>> by:
>> 1) ACPI resource parsing interface doesn't do any translation, it just
>>     save the translation_offset to be used by arch code.
>> 2) Arch code will do the mapping(translation) based on arch specific
>>     information. Typically it does:
>> 2.a) Translate per PCI domain IO port address space into system global
>>     IO port address space.
>> 2.b) Setup MMIO address mapping for IO ports.
>
> This patch fixes IO space handling on IA64 and should go in as a fix.
>
> IA64 PCI IO space is currently broken (Hanjun tested this on an IA64 box).
>
> The first broken commit is:
>
> 3772aea7d6f3 ("ia64/PCI/ACPI: Use common ACPI resource parsing interface for host bridge")
>
> because acpi core code checks (in acpi_dev_ioresource_flags()) the
> resource.end>=0x10003, which fails on ia64 - currently resource.end is
> set in acpi_decode_space() to:
>
> AddressMaximum + AddressTranslation
>
> where AddressTranslation is the CPU physical address mapping IO space
> on IA64, the >=0x10003 check in acpi_dev_ioresource_flags always
> triggers and the IO resource is then disabled.
>
> Do you want me to re-send this patch as a fix, with updated commit log ?

I talked to Gerry offline, he is busy these days, he said it's pretty
OK for you to resend this patch and fix the problem.

Thanks
Hanjun



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