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

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 03:26:19 PST 2016


On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 10:54:01AM +0100, 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.
> 
> 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.

Actually I think pgprot_noncached() is correct. Very early on we used to
map this using ioremap() and I remember that working. I also just tested
the pci-tegra driver with pgprot_device(PAGE_KERNEL) instead of the ARM-
specific flags and it seems to work well.

Thierry
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