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Message-ID: <55647C94.9080606@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 May 2015 10:00:52 -0400
From:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To:	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
CC:	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com>,
	Liviu Dudau <Liviu.Dudau@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Yijing Wang <wangyijing@...wei.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>,
	Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@...aro.org>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linaro-acpi@...ts.linaro.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] XEN / PCI: Remove the dependence on arch x86 when
 PCI_MMCONFIG=y

On 05/26/2015 09:54 AM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 05/26/2015 08:49 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>> In drivers/xen/pci.c, there are arch x86 dependent codes when
>> CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG is enabled, since CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG
>> depends on ACPI, so this will prevent XEN PCI running on other
>> architectures using ACPI with PCI_MMCONFIG enabled (such as ARM64).
>>
>> Fortunatly, it can be sloved in a simple way. In drivers/xen/pci.c,
>> the only x86 dependent code is if ((pci_probe & PCI_PROBE_MMCONF) == 0),
>> and it's defined in asm/pci_x86.h, the code means that
>> if the PCI resource is not probed in PCI_PROBE_MMCONF way, just
>> ingnore the xen mcfg init. Actually this is duplicate, because
>> if PCI resource is not probed in PCI_PROBE_MMCONF way, the
>> pci_mmconfig_list will be empty, and the if (list_empty())
>> after it will do the same job.
>>
>> So just remove the arch related code and the head file, this
>> will be no functional change for x86, and also makes xen/pci.c
>> usable for other architectures.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>
>> CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
>> CC: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/xen/pci.c | 6 ------
>>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pci.c b/drivers/xen/pci.c
>> index 6785ebb..9a8dbe3 100644
>> --- a/drivers/xen/pci.c
>> +++ b/drivers/xen/pci.c
>> @@ -28,9 +28,6 @@
>>   #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h>
>>   #include <asm/xen/hypercall.h>
>>   #include "../pci/pci.h"
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG
>> -#include <asm/pci_x86.h>
>> -#endif
>>
>>   static bool __read_mostly pci_seg_supported = true;
>>
>> @@ -222,9 +219,6 @@ static int __init xen_mcfg_late(void)
>>       if (!xen_initial_domain())
>>           return 0;
>>
>> -    if ((pci_probe & PCI_PROBE_MMCONF) == 0)
>> -        return 0;
>> -
>>       if (list_empty(&pci_mmcfg_list))
>>           return 0;
>>
>
> (+Stefano who is Xen ARM maintainer)
>
> This will not build on x86 since pci_mmcfg_list since, for example, 
> pci_mmcfg_list is declared in pci_x86.h.


And now really with Stefano and with parsable first sentence, sorry:


This will not build on x86 since pci_mmcfg_list, for example, is 
declared in pci_x86.h.


>
> And I am not sure I understand why you are trying to do this since 
> AFAIK CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG is only defined on x86 so neither pci_x86.h 
> will be included nor xen_mcfg_late() will be defined on ARM.
>
>
> -boris
>
>
>

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