[PATCH v2 07/10] ARM: tegra: pcie: Add device tree support

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at avionic-design.de
Fri Jun 22 07:04:03 EDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:31:39AM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote:
> On 6/19/2012 3:30 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 08:12:36AM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 01:50:56PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>>On 06/14/2012 01:29 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:30:50PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >>>>>On 06/14/2012 03:19 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>>...
> >>>>>>#address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>;
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>pci at 80000000 {
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I'm still not convinced that using the address of the port's
> >>>>>registers is the correct way to represent each port. The port
> >>>>>index seems much more useful.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>The main reason here is that there are a lot of registers that
> >>>>>contain fields for each port - far more than the combination of
> >>>>>this node's reg and ctrl-offset (which I assume is an address
> >>>>>offset for just one example of this issue) properties can
> >>>>>describe. The bit position and bit stride of these fields isn't
> >>>>>necessarily the same in each register. Do we want a property like
> >>>>>ctrl-offset for every single type of field in every single shared
> >>>>>register that describes the location of the relevant data, or
> >>>>>just a single "port ID" bit that can be applied to anything?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>(Perhaps this isn't so obvious looking at the TRM since it
> >>>>>doesn't document all registers, and I'm also looking at the
> >>>>>Tegra30 documentation too, which might be more exposed to this -
> >>>>>I haven't correlated all the documentation sources to be sure
> >>>>>though)
> >>>>
> >>>>I agree that maybe adding properties for each bit position or
> >>>>register offset may not work out too well. But I think it still
> >>>>makes sense to use the base address of the port's registers (see
> >>>>below). We could of course add some code to determine the index
> >>>>from the base address at initialization time and reuse the index
> >>>>where appropriate.
> >>>
> >>>To me, working back from address to ID then using the ID to calculate
> >>>some other addresses seems far more icky than just calculating all the
> >>>addresses based off of one ID. But, I suppose this doesn't make a huge
> >>>practical difference.
> >>
> >>This really depends on the device vs. no device decision below. If we can
> >>make it work without needing an extra device for it, then using the index
> >>is certainly better. However, if we instantiate devices from the DT, then
> >>we have the address anyway and adding the index as a property would be
> >>redundant and error prone (what happens if somebody sets the index of the
> >>port at address 0x80000000 to 2?).
> >
> >An additional problem with this is that we'd have to add the following
> >to the pcie-controller node:
> >
> >	#address-cells = <1>;
> >	#size-cells = <0>;
> >
> >This will conflict with the "ranges" property, because suddenly we can
> >no longer map the regions properly. Maybe Mitch can comment on whether
> >this is possible or not?
> >
> >To make it clearer what I'm talking about, here's the DT snippet again
> >(with the compatible property removed from the pci@ nodes because they
> >are no longer probed by a driver, the "simple-bus" removed from the
> >pcie-controller node's compatible property removed and its #address-
> >and #size-cells properties adjusted as described above).
> >
> >	pcie-controller {
> >		compatible = "nvidia,tegra20-pcie";
> >		reg = <0x80003000 0x00000800   /* PADS registers */
> >		       0x80003800 0x00000200   /* AFI registers */
> >		       0x80004000 0x00100000   /* configuration space */
> >		       0x80104000 0x00100000>; /* extended configuration space */
> >		interrupts = <0 98 0x04   /* controller interrupt */
> >			      0 99 0x04>; /* MSI interrupt */
> >		status = "disabled";
> >
> >		ranges = <0x80000000 0x80000000 0x00002000   /* 2 root ports */
> >			  0x80400000 0x80400000 0x00010000   /* downstream I/O */
> >			  0x90000000 0x90000000 0x10000000   /* non-prefetchable memory */
> >			  0xa0000000 0xa0000000 0x10000000>; /* prefetchable memory */
> >
> >		#address-cells = <1>;
> >		#size-cells = <0>;
> >
> >		pci at 0 {
> >			reg = <2>;
> >			status = "disabled";
> >
> >			#address-cells = <3>;
> >			#size-cells = <2>;
> >
> >			ranges = <0x81000000 0 0 0x80400000 0 0x00008000   /* I/O */
> >				  0x82000000 0 0 0x90000000 0 0x08000000   /* non-prefetchable memory */
> >				  0xc2000000 0 0 0xa0000000 0 0x08000000>; /* prefetchable memory */
> >
> >			nvidia,ctrl-offset = <0x110>;
> >			nvidia,num-lanes = <2>;
> >		};
> >
> >		pci at 1 {
> >			reg = <1>;
> >			status = "disabled";
> >
> >			#address-cells = <3>;
> >			#size-cells = <2>;
> >
> >			ranges = <0x81000000 0 0 0x80408000 0 0x00008000   /* I/O */
> >				  0x82000000 0 0 0x98000000 0 0x08000000   /* non-prefetchable memory */
> >				  0xc2000000 0 0 0xa8000000 0 0x08000000>; /* prefetchable memory */
> >
> >			nvidia,ctrl-offset = <0x118>;
> >			nvidia,num-lanes = <2>;
> >		};
> >	};
> >
> >AIUI none of the ranges properties are valid anymore, because the bus
> >represented by pcie-controller no longer reflects the truth, namely that
> >it translates the CPU address space to the PCI address space.
> >
> 
> I think you can use a small-integer port number as an address by
> defining the intermediate address space properly, and using
> appropriate ranges above and below.  Here's a swag at how that would
> look.
> 
> I present three versions, using different choices for the
> intermediate address space encoding.  The intermediate address space
> may seem somewhat artificial, in that it decouples the "linear pass
> through of ranges" between the lower PCI address space and the upper
> CPU address space.  But in another sense, it accurately reflects
> that fact that the bus bridge "slices and dices" that linear address
> space into non-contiguous pieces.
> 
> Note that I'm also fixing a problem that I neglected to mention
> earlier - namely the fact that config space is part of the child PCI
> address space so it must be passed through.
> 
> Version A - 3 address cells:  In this version, the intermediate
> address space has 3 cells:  port#, address type, offset.  Address
> type is
>   0 : root port
>   1 : config space
>   2 : extended config space
>   3 : I/O
>   4 : non-prefetchable memory
>   5 : prefetchable memory.
> 
> The third cell "offset" is necessary so that the size field has a
> number space that can include it.
> 
> 	pcie-controller {
> 		compatible = "nvidia,tegra20-pcie";
> 		reg = <0x80003000 0x00000800   /* PADS registers */
> 		       0x80003800 0x00000200>; /* extended configuration space */
> 		interrupts = <0 98 0x04   /* controller interrupt */
> 			      0 99 0x04>; /* MSI interrupt */
> 		status = "disabled";
> 
> 		ranges = <0 0 0  0x80000000 0x00001000   /* Root port 0 */
> 			  0 1 0  0x80004000 0x00080000   /* Port 0 config space */
> 			  0 2 0  0x80104000 0x00080000   /* Port 0 ext config space *
> 			  0 3 0  0x80400000 0x00008000   /* Port 0 downstream I/O */
> 			  0 4 0  0x90000000 0x08000000   /* Port 0 non-prefetchable memory */
> 			  0 5 0  0xa0000000 0x08000000   /* Port 0 prefetchable memory */
> 
> 			  1 0 0  0x80001000 0x00001000   /* Root port 1 */
> 			  1 1 0  0x80004000 0x00080000   /* Port 1 config space */
> 			  1 2 0  0x80184000 0x00080000   /* Port 1 ext config space */
> 			  1 3 0  0x80408000 0x00010000   /* Port 1 downstream I/O */
> 			  1 4 0  0x98000000 0x08000000   /* Port 1 non-prefetchable memory */
> 			  1 5 0  0xa0000000 0x08000000>; /* Port 1 prefetchable memory */
> 
> 		#address-cells = <3>;
> 		#size-cells = <1>;
> 
> 		pci at 0 {
> 			reg = <0 0 0 0x1000>;
[...]
> 		};
> 
> 		pci at 1 {
> 			reg = <1 0 0 0x1000>;
[...]
> 		};

It seems like this isn't working properly. For some reason both the reg
property of pci at 0 and pci at 1 are translated to the same parent address
0x80000000. I'll have to investigate where exactly this goes wrong.

Thierry
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