[PATCH v2 02/22] asm-generic/io.h: add ioremap_nopost remap interface

Bjorn Helgaas helgaas at kernel.org
Mon Mar 27 18:41:10 PDT 2017


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:49:30AM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> The PCI specifications (Rev 3.0, 3.2.5 "Transaction Ordering and
> Posting") mandate non-posted configuration transactions. As further
> highlighted in the PCIe specifications (4.0 - Rev0.3, "Ordering
> Considerations for the Enhanced Configuration Access Mechanism"),
> through ECAM and ECAM-derivative configuration mechanism, the memory
> mapped transactions from the host CPU into Configuration Requests on the
> PCI express fabric may create ordering problems for software because
> writes to memory address are typically posted transactions (unless the
> architecture can enforce through virtual address mapping non-posted
> write transactions behaviour) but writes to Configuration Space are not
> posted on the PCI express fabric.
> 
> Current DT and ACPI host bridge controllers map PCI configuration space
> (ECAM and ECAM-derivative) into the virtual address space through
> ioremap() calls, that are non-cacheable device accesses on most
> architectures, but may provide "bufferable" or "posted" write semantics
> in architecture like eg ARM/ARM64 that allow ioremap'ed regions writes
> to be buffered in the bus connecting the host CPU to the PCI fabric;
> this behaviour, as underlined in the PCIe specifications, may trigger
> transactions ordering rules and must be prevented.
> 
> Introduce a new generic and explicit API to create a memory
> mapping for ECAM and ECAM-derivative config space area that
> defaults to ioremap_nocache() (which should provide a sane default
> behaviour) but still allowing architectures on which ioremap_nocache()
> results in posted write transactions to override the function
> call with an arch specific implementation that complies with
> the PCI specifications for configuration transactions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle.net>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen at gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
>  arch/avr32/include/asm/io.h | 1 +
>  arch/frv/include/asm/io.h   | 1 +
>  arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h  | 1 +
>  arch/x86/include/asm/io.h   | 1 +
>  include/asm-generic/io.h    | 4 ++++
>  6 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> index ff40491..27379ea 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -300,6 +300,7 @@ static inline void __iomem * ioremap_nocache(unsigned long offset,
>  }
>  
>  #define ioremap_uc ioremap_nocache
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache
>  
>  static inline void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr)
>  {
> diff --git a/arch/avr32/include/asm/io.h b/arch/avr32/include/asm/io.h
> index f855646..3f1ced8 100644
> --- a/arch/avr32/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/avr32/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ extern void __iounmap(void __iomem *addr);
>  #define ioremap_wc ioremap_nocache
>  #define ioremap_wt ioremap_nocache
>  #define ioremap_uc ioremap_nocache
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache
>  
>  #define cached(addr) P1SEGADDR(addr)
>  #define uncached(addr) P2SEGADDR(addr)
> diff --git a/arch/frv/include/asm/io.h b/arch/frv/include/asm/io.h
> index 8062fc7..302fb8c 100644
> --- a/arch/frv/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/frv/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ static inline void __iomem *ioremap_fullcache(unsigned long physaddr, unsigned l
>  
>  #define ioremap_wc ioremap_nocache
>  #define ioremap_uc ioremap_nocache
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache
>  
>  extern void iounmap(void volatile __iomem *addr);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h
> index 5de673a..70a4985 100644
> --- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ static inline void __iomem * ioremap_cache (unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned lo
>  }
>  #define ioremap_cache ioremap_cache
>  #define ioremap_uc ioremap_nocache
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache
>  
>  
>  /*
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> index 7afb0e2..50b292f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static inline unsigned int isa_virt_to_bus(volatile void *address)
>  extern void __iomem *ioremap_nocache(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size);
>  extern void __iomem *ioremap_uc(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size);
>  #define ioremap_uc ioremap_uc
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache

These are all the same as the default from asm-generic.h.  Do we really
need these definitions in alpha, avr32, frv, ia64, x86?

>  extern void __iomem *ioremap_cache(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size);
>  extern void __iomem *ioremap_prot(resource_size_t offset, unsigned long size, unsigned long prot_val);
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io.h b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> index 7ef015e..0e81938 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> @@ -915,6 +915,10 @@ extern void ioport_unmap(void __iomem *p);
>  #endif /* CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP */
>  #endif /* CONFIG_HAS_IOPORT_MAP */
>  
> +#ifndef ioremap_nopost
> +#define ioremap_nopost ioremap_nocache
> +#endif
> +
>  #ifndef xlate_dev_kmem_ptr
>  #define xlate_dev_kmem_ptr xlate_dev_kmem_ptr
>  static inline void *xlate_dev_kmem_ptr(void *addr)
> -- 
> 2.10.0
> 



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