[PATCH kvmtool 20/21] hw/serial: ARM/arm64: Use MMIO at higher addresses
Andre Przywara
andre.przywara at arm.com
Thu Feb 18 11:38:31 EST 2021
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 12:18:38 +0000
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Andre,
>
> On 2/17/21 4:48 PM, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> > On 12/10/20 2:29 PM, Andre Przywara wrote:
> >> Using the UART devices at their legacy I/O addresses as set by IBM in
> >> 1981 was a kludge we used for simplicity on ARM platforms as well.
> >> However this imposes problems due to their missing alignment and overlap
> >> with the PCI I/O address space.
> >>
> >> Now that we can switch a device easily between using ioports and MMIO,
> >> let's move the UARTs out of the first 4K of memory on ARM platforms.
> >>
> >> That should be transparent for well behaved guests, since the change is
> >> naturally reflected in the device tree. Even "earlycon" keeps working,
> >> as the stdout-path property is adjusted automatically.
> >>
> >> People providing direct earlycon parameters via the command line need to
> >> adjust it to: "earlycon=uart,mmio,0x1000000".
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> >> ---
> >> hw/serial.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >> 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/hw/serial.c b/hw/serial.c
> >> index d840eebc..00fb3aa8 100644
> >> --- a/hw/serial.c
> >> +++ b/hw/serial.c
> >> @@ -13,6 +13,24 @@
> >>
> >> #include <pthread.h>
> >>
> >> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARM) || defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
> >> +#define serial_iobase(nr) (0x1000000 + (nr) * 0x1000)
> >> +#define serial_irq(nr) (32 + (nr))
> >> +#define SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE DEVICE_BUS_MMIO
> >> +#else
> >> +#define serial_iobase_0 0x3f8
> >> +#define serial_iobase_1 0x2f8
> >> +#define serial_iobase_2 0x3e8
> >> +#define serial_iobase_3 0x2e8
> >> +#define serial_irq_0 4
> >> +#define serial_irq_1 3
> >> +#define serial_irq_2 4
> >> +#define serial_irq_3 3
> > Nitpick: serial_iobase_* and serial_irq_* could be changed to have two leading
> > underscores, to stress the fact that they are helpers for serial_iobase() and
> > serial_irq() and are not meant to be used by themselves. But that's just personal
> > preference, otherwise the patch looks really nice and clean:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
>
> I gave it more thought and I think I spoke too soon. I think it would be good to
> document in the commit message how you came to the base MMIO address and size
> (even if it was just a nice looking number). Also, the CFI flash device has its
> memory range described in the memory layout for the architecture, in
> arm/include/arm-common/kvm-arch.h. I think it would be a good idea to put the
> serial region there, to prevent regressions in the future.
Yes, that's very true, the memory map should be described in one place
only. Will try to do that.
>
> I did the math to make sure there's no overlap with the ioport region (16M >> 16K)
> or the flash region (16M + 0x4000 < 32M). I also tested the changes with a kernel
> with 4K and 64K pages (I can't access any hardware with 16K pages at the moment),
> and everything worked as expected.
Thanks!
Andre
> >> +#define serial_iobase(nr) serial_iobase_##nr
> >> +#define serial_irq(nr) serial_irq_##nr
> >> +#define SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE DEVICE_BUS_IOPORT
> >> +#endif
> >> +
> >> /*
> >> * This fakes a U6_16550A. The fifo len needs to be 64 as the kernel
> >> * expects that for autodetection.
> >> @@ -27,7 +45,7 @@ struct serial8250_device {
> >> struct mutex mutex;
> >> u8 id;
> >>
> >> - u16 iobase;
> >> + u32 iobase;
> >> u8 irq;
> >> u8 irq_state;
> >> int txcnt;
> >> @@ -65,56 +83,56 @@ static struct serial8250_device devices[] = {
> >> /* ttyS0 */
> >> [0] = {
> >> .dev_hdr = {
> >> - .bus_type = DEVICE_BUS_IOPORT,
> >> + .bus_type = SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE,
> >> .data = serial8250_generate_fdt_node,
> >> },
> >> .mutex = MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
> >>
> >> .id = 0,
> >> - .iobase = 0x3f8,
> >> - .irq = 4,
> >> + .iobase = serial_iobase(0),
> >> + .irq = serial_irq(0),
> >>
> >> SERIAL_REGS_SETTING
> >> },
> >> /* ttyS1 */
> >> [1] = {
> >> .dev_hdr = {
> >> - .bus_type = DEVICE_BUS_IOPORT,
> >> + .bus_type = SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE,
> >> .data = serial8250_generate_fdt_node,
> >> },
> >> .mutex = MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
> >>
> >> .id = 1,
> >> - .iobase = 0x2f8,
> >> - .irq = 3,
> >> + .iobase = serial_iobase(1),
> >> + .irq = serial_irq(1),
> >>
> >> SERIAL_REGS_SETTING
> >> },
> >> /* ttyS2 */
> >> [2] = {
> >> .dev_hdr = {
> >> - .bus_type = DEVICE_BUS_IOPORT,
> >> + .bus_type = SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE,
> >> .data = serial8250_generate_fdt_node,
> >> },
> >> .mutex = MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
> >>
> >> .id = 2,
> >> - .iobase = 0x3e8,
> >> - .irq = 4,
> >> + .iobase = serial_iobase(2),
> >> + .irq = serial_irq(2),
> >>
> >> SERIAL_REGS_SETTING
> >> },
> >> /* ttyS3 */
> >> [3] = {
> >> .dev_hdr = {
> >> - .bus_type = DEVICE_BUS_IOPORT,
> >> + .bus_type = SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE,
> >> .data = serial8250_generate_fdt_node,
> >> },
> >> .mutex = MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
> >>
> >> .id = 3,
> >> - .iobase = 0x2e8,
> >> - .irq = 3,
> >> + .iobase = serial_iobase(3),
> >> + .irq = serial_irq(3),
> >>
> >> SERIAL_REGS_SETTING
> >> },
> >> @@ -444,7 +462,8 @@ static int serial8250__device_init(struct kvm *kvm,
> >> return r;
> >>
> >> ioport__map_irq(&dev->irq);
> >> - r = kvm__register_pio(kvm, dev->iobase, 8, serial8250_mmio, dev);
> >> + r = kvm__register_iotrap(kvm, dev->iobase, 8, serial8250_mmio, dev,
> >> + SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE);
> >>
> >> return r;
> >> }
> >> @@ -467,7 +486,7 @@ cleanup:
> >> for (j = 0; j <= i; j++) {
> >> struct serial8250_device *dev = &devices[j];
> >>
> >> - kvm__deregister_pio(kvm, dev->iobase);
> >> + kvm__deregister_iotrap(kvm, dev->iobase, SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE);
> >> device__unregister(&dev->dev_hdr);
> >> }
> >>
> >> @@ -483,7 +502,8 @@ int serial8250__exit(struct kvm *kvm)
> >> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(devices); i++) {
> >> struct serial8250_device *dev = &devices[i];
> >>
> >> - r = kvm__deregister_pio(kvm, dev->iobase);
> >> + r = kvm__deregister_iotrap(kvm, dev->iobase,
> >> + SERIAL8250_BUS_TYPE);
> >> if (r < 0)
> >> return r;
> >> device__unregister(&dev->dev_hdr);
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