[RFC PATCH 04/11] PCI: tegra: limit to MMU build only

Vladimir Murzin vladimir.murzin at arm.com
Tue Nov 22 01:58:37 PST 2016


On 22/11/16 09:54, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:40:39 AM CET Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> On 22/11/16 09:31, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 9:26:01 AM CET Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>>>> This driver uses functionality which available for MMU build only,
>>>> thus add dependency on MMU.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you be more specific about what requires the MMU here?
>>>
>>> Is it the I/O space remapping or something else?
>>
>> Yes it comes from I/O space remapping.
>>
>> The fill error log:
>>
>>   CC      drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.o
>> In file included from ./arch/arm/include/asm/page.h:22:0,
>>                  from ./arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h:17,
>>                  from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:58,
>>                  from ./include/asm-generic/current.h:4,
>>                  from ./arch/arm/include/generated/asm/current.h:1,
>>                  from ./include/linux/mutex.h:13,
>>                  from ./include/linux/notifier.h:13,
>>                  from ./include/linux/clk.h:17,
>>                  from drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c:29:
>> drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c: In function 'tegra_pcie_bus_alloc':
>> drivers/pci/host/pci-tegra.c:388:27: error: 'L_PTE_PRESENT' undeclared (first use in this function)
>>   pgprot_t prot = __pgprot(L_PTE_PRESENT | L_PTE_YOUNG | L_PTE_DIRTY |
> 
> 
> That is not the I/O space, that is the config space.

Sorry for that, I'm not in PCI :(

> 
> Not sure what a better alternative would be, but the manual selection
> of page flags makes the driver non-portable and dependent on architecture
> specifics that it really shouldn't have to worry about.
> 
> In common PCI code, we use pgprot_device(PAGE_KERNEL)) at some point,
> and that sounds like the right thing to do, but ARM doesn't provide
> an override for it and the fallback is pgprot_noncached(), which is
> probably wrong here.
> 
> Unless someone has a good idea for how to change the driver, just
> mention this in the changelog.

Thanks for explanation! I'll wait for Thierry's thoughts on this. 

Cheers
Vladimir 

> 
> 	Arnd
> 




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