[RFC PATCH 1/3] of/pci: dma-ranges to account highest possible host bridge dma_mask

[Oza Oza]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Oza Oza <oza.oza at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Oza Pawandeep <oza.oza at broadcom.com> wrote:
>>>> it is possible that PCI device supports 64-bit DMA addressing,
>>>> and thus it's driver sets device's dma_mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(64),
>>>> however PCI host bridge may have limitations on the inbound
>>>> transaction addressing. As an example, consider NVME SSD device
>>>> connected to iproc-PCIe controller.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, the IOMMU DMA ops only considers PCI device dma_mask
>>>> when allocating an IOVA. This is particularly problematic on
>>>> ARM/ARM64 SOCs where the IOMMU (i.e. SMMU) translates IOVA to
>>>> PA for in-bound transactions only after PCI Host has forwarded
>>>> these transactions on SOC IO bus. This means on such ARM/ARM64
>>>> SOCs the IOVA of in-bound transactions has to honor the addressing
>>>> restrictions of the PCI Host.
>>>>
>>>> current pcie frmework and of framework integration assumes dma-ranges
>>>> in a way where memory-mapped devices define their dma-ranges.
>>>> dma-ranges: (child-bus-address, parent-bus-address, length).
>>>>
>>>> but iproc based SOCs and even Rcar based SOCs has PCI world dma-ranges.
>>>> dma-ranges = <0x43000000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00>;
>>>
>>> If you implement a common function, then I expect to see other users
>>> converted to use it. There's also PCI hosts in arch/powerpc that parse
>>> dma-ranges.
>>
>> the common function should be similar to what
>> of_pci_get_host_bridge_resources is doing right now.
>> it parses ranges property right now.
>>
>> the new function would look look following.
>>
>> of_pci_get_dma_ranges(struct device_node *dev, struct list_head *resources)
>> where resources would return the dma-ranges.
>>
>> but right now if you see the patch, of_dma_configure calls the new
>> function, which actually returns the largest possible size.
>> so this new function has to be generic in a way where other PCI hosts
>> can use it. but certainly iproc(Broadcom SOC) , rcar based SOCs can
>> use it for sure.
>>
>> although having powerpc using it;  is a separate exercise, since I do
>> not have any access to other PCI hosts such as powerpc. but we can
>> workout with them on thsi forum if required.
>
> You don't need h/w. You can analyze what parts are common, write
> patches to convert to common implementation, and build test. The PPC
> and rcar folks can test on h/w.
>
> Rob


Hi Rob,

I have addressed your comment and made generic function.
Gentle request to have a look at following approach and patch.

[RFC PATCH 2/2] of/pci: call pci specific dma-ranges instead of memory-mapped.
[RFC PATCH 1/2] of/pci: implement inbound dma-ranges for PCI

I have tested this on our platform, with and without iommu, and seems to work.

let me know your view on this.

Regards,
Oza.