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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:54:58 +1100
From: Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] powerpc: Added PCI MSI support using the HSTA module
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 07:41:26 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-21 at 15:33 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[...]
>
> Should we (provided it's possible in HW) create two ranges instead ? One
> covering RAM and one covering MSIs ? To avoid stray DMAs whacking random
> HW registers in the chip ...
>
The thought occurred to me but I figured if we had stray DMAs then they could
already whack random bits of system memory which would likely break your
system anyway so I wasn't sure how much we'd gain. I guess whacking random HW
registers is arguably a bit worse though.
I did a bit of digging into the HW documentation and it looks like it _may_ be
possible to create a second range that would limit access to a subset of HW
registers, although there doesn't seem to be much flexibility. Personally I'm
not sure it justifies the work, but I'm happy to look into it a bit more if
you feel it's important?
- Alistair
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