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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:27:39 +0000
From: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@...inx.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v8] PCI: Xilinx-NWL-PCIe: Added support for Xilinx NWL
PCIe Host Controller
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 04:59:39 +0000
> Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharat.kumar.gogada@...inx.com> wrote:
>
> > > On 11/16/2015 7:14 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > > On 11/11/15 06:33, Bharat Kumar Gogada wrote:
> > > >> Adding PCIe Root Port driver for Xilinx PCIe NWL bridge IP.
> > > >>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@...inx.com>
> > > >> Signed-off-by: Ravi Kiran Gummaluri <rgummal@...inx.com>
> > > >> ---
> > > >> Added logic to allocate contiguous hwirq in nwl_irq_domain_alloc
> > > function.
> > > >> Moved MSI functionality to separate functions.
> > > >> Changed error return values.
> > > >> ---
> > > >> .../devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-pcie.txt | 68 ++
> > > >> drivers/pci/host/Kconfig | 16 +-
> > > >> drivers/pci/host/Makefile | 1 +
> > > >> drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c | 1062
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >> 4 files changed, 1144 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >> create mode 100644
> > > >> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/xilinx-nwl-
> > > pcie.txt
> > > >> create mode 100644 drivers/pci/host/pcie-xilinx-nwl.c
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > >> +static int nwl_pcie_enable_msi(struct nwl_pcie *pcie, struct
> > > >> +pci_bus
> > > >> +*bus) {
> > > >> + struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(pcie-
> >dev);
> > > >> + struct nwl_msi *msi = &pcie->msi;
> > > >> + unsigned long base;
> > > >> + int ret;
> > > >> +
> > > >> + mutex_init(&msi->lock);
> > > >> +
> > > >> + /* Check for msii_present bit */
> > > >> + ret = nwl_bridge_readl(pcie, I_MSII_CAPABILITIES) &
> MSII_PRESENT;
> > > >> + if (!ret) {
> > > >> + dev_err(pcie->dev, "MSI not present\n");
> > > >> + ret = -EIO;
> > > >> + goto err;
> > > >> + }
> > > >> +
> > > >> + /* Enable MSII */
> > > >> + nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie,
> I_MSII_CONTROL) |
> > > >> + MSII_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
> > > >> +
> > > >> + /* Enable MSII status */
> > > >> + nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, nwl_bridge_readl(pcie,
> I_MSII_CONTROL) |
> > > >> + MSII_STATUS_ENABLE, I_MSII_CONTROL);
> > > >> +
> > > >> + /* setup AFI/FPCI range */
> > > >> + msi->pages = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
> > > >> + base = virt_to_phys((void *)msi->pages);
> > > >> + nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, lower_32_bits(base),
> I_MSII_BASE_LO);
> > > >> + nwl_bridge_writel(pcie, upper_32_bits(base),
> I_MSII_BASE_HI);
> > > >
> > > > BTW, you still haven't answered my question as to why you need to
> > > > waste a page of memory here, and why putting a device address
> > > > doesn't
> > > work.
> > > >
> > > > As this is (to the best of my knowledge) the only driver doing so,
> > > > I'd really like you to explain the rational behind this.
> > >
> > > Might not be the only driver doing so after I start sending out
> > > patches for the iProc MSI support (soon), :)
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how it works for the Xilinx NWL controller, which
> > > Bharat should be able to help to explain. But for the iProc MSI
> > > controller, there's no device I/O memory reserved for MSI posted writes
> in the ASIC.
> > > Therefore one needs to reserve host memory for these writes.
> > > >
> >
> > Our SoC doesn't reserve any memory for MSI, hence we need to assign a
> > memory space for it out of RAM.
>
> Question to both of you: Does the write make it to memory? Or is it sampled
> by the bridge and dropped?
>
No, write will not do any modification in memory, it is consumed by bridge.
> What happens if you replace the page in RAM with a dummy address?
What do you mean by dummy address ?
Regards,
Bharat
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