linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] pci, acpi: Share ACPI PCI config space accessors.

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Message-ID: <20141120222650.GC7987@google.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:26:50 -0700
From:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
	lorenzo.pieralisi@....com, wangyijing@...wei.com,
	hanjun.guo@...aro.org, Liviu.Dudau@....com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, rjw@...ysocki.net,
	linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] pci, acpi: Share ACPI PCI config space accessors.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 05:19:20PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2014 17:04:51 Tomasz Nowicki wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * raw_pci_read/write - ACPI PCI config space accessors.
> > + *
> > + * ACPI spec defines MMCFG as the way we can access PCI config space,
> > + * so let MMCFG be default (__weak).
> > + *
> > + * If platform needs more fancy stuff, should provides its own implementation.
> > + */
> > +int __weak raw_pci_read(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus,
> > +                       unsigned int devfn, int reg, int len, u32 *val)
> > +{
> > +       return pci_mmcfg_read(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
> > +}
> > +
> > +int __weak raw_pci_write(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus,
> > +                        unsigned int devfn, int reg, int len, u32 val)
> > +{
> > +       return pci_mmcfg_write(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
> > +}
> > +
> > 
> 
> I think it would be better to avoid __weak functions here, as they tend
> to be hard to follow when trying to understand the code.

That's interesting.  I would have said exactly the opposite -- I think the
extra Kconfiggery is harder to follow than weak/strong functions :)

But consistency is better than my personal opinion.  Is there a consensus
that we should use the Kconfig strategy instead of __weak?

> How about using a Kconfig symbol like this:
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_RAW_PCI_READWRITE
> int raw_pci_read(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn,
>                  int reg, int len, u32 *val);
> int raw_pci_write(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus, unsigned int devfn,
>                   int reg, int len, u32 val);
> #else
> static inline int raw_pci_read(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus,
> 	                       unsigned int devfn, int reg, int len, u32 *val)
> {
> 	return pci_mmcfg_read(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
> }
> 
> static inline int raw_pci_write(unsigned int domain, unsigned int bus,
>              		                unsigned int devfn, int reg, int len, u32 val)
> {
>        return pci_mmcfg_write(domain, bus, devfn, reg, len, val);
> }
> #endif
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