[PATCH v2 11/23] PCI: aardvark: Fix setting MSI address

[Marek Behún]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:14:52 -0600
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:

> > +	phys_addr_t msi_addr;
> >  	u32 reg;
> >  	int i;
> >  
> > @@ -561,6 +561,11 @@ static void advk_pcie_setup_hw(struct advk_pcie *pcie)
> >  	reg |= LANE_COUNT_1;
> >  	advk_writel(pcie, reg, PCIE_CORE_CTRL0_REG);
> >  
> > +	/* Set MSI address */
> > +	msi_addr = virt_to_phys(pcie);  
> 
> Strictly speaking, msi_addr should be a pci_bus_addr_t, not a
> phys_addr_t, and virt_to_phys() doesn't return a bus address.

Dear Bjorn,

the problem here is that as far as we know currently there is no
function that converts a virtual address to pci_bus_addr_t like
virt_to_phys() does to convert to phys_addr_t.

On Armada 3720 there are PCIe Controller Address Decoder Registers,
which such a translating function would need to consult to do the
translation. But the default settings of these registers is to map PCIe
addresses 1 to 1 to physical addresses, and no driver changes these
registers.

Pali says that other drivers also use phys_addr_t, and most hardware
maps 1 to 1 by default.

So we think that until at least an API for such a function exists, we
shuld leave it as it is. I am not against converting the phys_addr_to
to a pci_bus_addr_t, but Pali thinks that for now we should leave even
that as it is, because the virt_to_phys() function returns phys_addr_t.

We can add a comment there explaining this, if you want.

What do you think?

Marek