[RFC PATCH V3 1/4] pci: APM X-Gene PCIe controller driver

[Tanmay Inamdar]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 03 February 2014 11:42:22 Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> > On Friday 24 January 2014, Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
>> >
>> >> +static void xgene_pcie_fixup_bridge(struct pci_dev *dev)
>> >> +{
>> >> +     int i;
>> >> +
>> >> +     /* Hide the PCI host BARs from the kernel as their content doesn't
>> >> +      * fit well in the resource management
>> >> +      */
>> >> +     for (i = 0; i < DEVICE_COUNT_RESOURCE; i++) {
>> >> +             dev->resource[i].start = dev->resource[i].end = 0;
>> >> +             dev->resource[i].flags = 0;
>> >> +     }
>> >> +     dev_info(&dev->dev, "Hiding X-Gene pci host bridge resources %s\n",
>> >> +              pci_name(dev));
>> >> +}
>> >> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(XGENE_PCIE_VENDORID, XGENE_PCIE_DEVICEID,
>> >> +                      xgene_pcie_fixup_bridge);
>> >
>> > Shouldn't this be gone now that the host bridge is correctly shown
>> > at the domain root?
>>
>> In inbound region configuration, whole DDR space is mapped into the
>> BAR of RC. When Linux PCI mid-layer starts enumerating, it reads the
>> size of BAR of RC and tries to fit it into the memory resource. First
>> thing is that the outbound memory is not enough to map the inbound BAR
>> space. This creates problem with the resource management logic and
>> second thing is that, it is not required to map inbound BAR space RC
>> bar as no one will be accessing it further.
>>
>> As Jason suggested, Bridge BAR's should be 0 size unless the bridge
>> itself has registers. However this is not the case with XGene PCIe
>> controller. It may have been inherited from the legacy design.
>> 'arch/powerpc/sysdev/ppc4xx_pci.c' has similar fixup function.
>
> Are you sure that is true for the root bridge as well? I don't
> remember the details, but I though that for the host bridge,
> we don't actually look at the BARs at all.
>
>> > If you want to try out the I/O space, I'd suggest using an Intel
>> > e1000 network card, which has both memory and i/o space. There
>> > is a patch at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg27684.html
>> > that lets you check the I/O registers on it, or you can go
>> > through /dev/port from user space.
>> >
>> > I also haven't seen your patch that adds pci_ioremap_io() for
>> > arm64. It would be helpful to keep it in the same patch
>> > series, since it won't build without this patch.
>>
>> I will post the arm64 pci patch along with next revision of this
>> driver. That will cover the 'pci_ioremap_io' as well.
>
> Please note that today, Liviu Dudau has also posted patches for this,
> so you should coordinate a bit.

Yes. Just looking at his patches. Looks similar to what I have. I will
wait till your solution shapes up.
>
>         Arnd