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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 17:44:52 -0500
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc: mst@...hat.com, plagnioj@...osoft.com, tomi.valkeinen@...com,
airlied@...ux.ie, daniel.vetter@...el.com,
linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, luto@...capital.net,
cocci@...teme.lip6.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>,
Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>,
Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>,
konrad.wilk@...cle.com, ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com,
david.vrabel@...rix.com, jbeulich@...e.com,
Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>,
xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] pci: add pci_iomap_wc() variants
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:36:04AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
>
> This allows drivers to take advantage of write-combining
> when possible. The PCI specification does not allow for us
> to automatically identify a memory region which needs
> write-combining so drivers have to identify these areas
> on their own. There is IORESOURCE_PREFETCH but as clarified
> by Michael and confirmed later by Bjorn, PCI prefetch bit
> merely means bridges can combine writes and prefetch reads.
> Prefetch does not affect ordering rules and does not allow
> writes to be collapsed [0]. WC is stronger, it allows collapsing
> and changes ordering rules. WC can also hurt latency as small
> writes are buffered. Because of all this drivers needs to
> know what they are doing, we can't set a write-combining
> preference flag in the pci core automatically for drivers.
>
> Lastly although there is also arch_phys_wc_add() this makes
> use of architecture specific write-combining *hacks* and
> the only one currently defined and used is MTRR for x86.
> MTRRs are legacy, limited in number, have restrictive size
> constraints, and are known to interact pooly with the BIOS.
> MTRRs should only really be considered on old video framebuffer
> drivers. If we made ioremap_wc() and similar calls start
> automatically adding MTRRs, then performance will vary wildly
> with the order of driver loading because we'll run out of MTRRs
> part-way through bootup.
>
> There are a few motivations for phasing out of MTRR and
> helping driver change over to use write-combining with PAT:
>
> a) Take advantage of PAT when available
>
> b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on
> x86 its replaced by PAT
>
> c) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
> _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
> de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
> use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
> pci_mmap_page_range()")
>
> [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/21/714
>
> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com
> Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>
> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
> Cc: konrad.wilk@...cle.com
> Cc: ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com
> Cc: david.vrabel@...rix.com
> Cc: jbeulich@...e.com
> Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@...rix.com>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com
> Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> ---
>
> This v5 makes the code return NULL for IORESOURCE_IO and fixes the commit
> log to clarify the conclusions reached for MTRR and our review of
> IORESOURCE_PREFETCH.
>
> include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h | 14 ++++++++++
> lib/pci_iomap.c | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h b/include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h
> index 7389c87..b1e17fc 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pci_iomap.h
> @@ -15,9 +15,13 @@ struct pci_dev;
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> /* Create a virtual mapping cookie for a PCI BAR (memory or IO) */
> extern void __iomem *pci_iomap(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long max);
> +extern void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long max);
> extern void __iomem *pci_iomap_range(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar,
> unsigned long offset,
> unsigned long maxlen);
> +extern void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc_range(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar,
> + unsigned long offset,
> + unsigned long maxlen);
> /* Create a virtual mapping cookie for a port on a given PCI device.
> * Do not call this directly, it exists to make it easier for architectures
> * to override */
> @@ -34,12 +38,22 @@ static inline void __iomem *pci_iomap(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned lon
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static inline void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long max)
> +{
> + return NULL;
> +}
> static inline void __iomem *pci_iomap_range(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar,
> unsigned long offset,
> unsigned long maxlen)
> {
> return NULL;
> }
> +static inline void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc_range(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar,
> + unsigned long offset,
> + unsigned long maxlen)
> +{
> + return NULL;
> +}
> #endif
>
> #endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_IO_H */
> diff --git a/lib/pci_iomap.c b/lib/pci_iomap.c
> index bcce5f1..9604dcb 100644
> --- a/lib/pci_iomap.c
> +++ b/lib/pci_iomap.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,46 @@ void __iomem *pci_iomap_range(struct pci_dev *dev,
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_iomap_range);
>
> /**
> + * pci_iomap_wc_range - create a virtual WC mapping cookie for a PCI BAR
> + * @dev: PCI device that owns the BAR
> + * @bar: BAR number
> + * @offset: map memory at the given offset in BAR
> + * @maxlen: max length of the memory to map
> + *
> + * Using this function you will get a __iomem address to your device BAR.
> + * You can access it using ioread*() and iowrite*(). These functions hide
> + * the details if this is a MMIO or PIO address space and will just do what
> + * you expect from them in the correct way. When possible write combining
> + * is used.
> + *
> + * @maxlen specifies the maximum length to map. If you want to get access to
> + * the complete BAR from offset to the end, pass %0 here.
> + * */
> +void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc_range(struct pci_dev *dev,
> + int bar,
> + unsigned long offset,
> + unsigned long maxlen)
> +{
> + resource_size_t start = pci_resource_start(dev, bar);
> + resource_size_t len = pci_resource_len(dev, bar);
> + unsigned long flags = pci_resource_flags(dev, bar);
> +
> + if (len <= offset || !start)
> + return NULL;
> + len -= offset;
> + start += offset;
> + if (maxlen && len > maxlen)
> + len = maxlen;
> + if (flags & IORESOURCE_IO)
> + return NULL;
> + if (flags & IORESOURCE_MEM)
> + return ioremap_wc(start, len);
> + /* What? */
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_iomap_wc_range);
> +
> +/**
> * pci_iomap - create a virtual mapping cookie for a PCI BAR
> * @dev: PCI device that owns the BAR
> * @bar: BAR number
> @@ -70,4 +110,25 @@ void __iomem *pci_iomap(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long maxlen)
> return pci_iomap_range(dev, bar, 0, maxlen);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(pci_iomap);
> +
> +/**
> + * pci_iomap_wc - create a virtual WC mapping cookie for a PCI BAR
> + * @dev: PCI device that owns the BAR
> + * @bar: BAR number
> + * @maxlen: length of the memory to map
> + *
> + * Using this function you will get a __iomem address to your device BAR.
> + * You can access it using ioread*() and iowrite*(). These functions hide
> + * the details if this is a MMIO or PIO address space and will just do what
> + * you expect from them in the correct way. When possible write combining
> + * is used.
> + *
> + * @maxlen specifies the maximum length to map. If you want to get access to
> + * the complete BAR without checking for its length first, pass %0 here.
> + * */
> +void __iomem *pci_iomap_wc(struct pci_dev *dev, int bar, unsigned long maxlen)
> +{
> + return pci_iomap_wc_range(dev, bar, 0, maxlen);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pci_iomap_wc);
> #endif /* CONFIG_PCI */
> --
> 2.3.2.209.gd67f9d5.dirty
>
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