linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/20] PCI: fix config and I/O Address space memory mappings

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 17:18:27 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] PCI: fix config and I/O Address space memory mappings

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi@....com> wrote:

> This patch series[1] addresses both issues in one go:
>
> - It updates the pci_remap_iospace() function to use a page mapping
>   that guarantees non-posted write transactions for I/O space addresses
> - It adds a kernel API to remap PCI config space resources, so that
>   architecture can override it with a mapping implementation that
>   guarantees PCI specifications compliancy wrt non-posted write
>   configuration transactions
> - It updates all PCI host controller implementations (and the generic
>   ECAM layer) to use the newly introduced mapping interface
>
> Tested on Juno ECAM based interface (DT/ACPI).

This looks all good to me, nice work!

    Arnd