linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] of/pci: dma-ranges to account highest possible host bridge dma

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:46:21 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Oza Pawandeep <oza.oza@...adcom.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Linux IOMMU <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com" 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] of/pci: dma-ranges to account highest possible
 host bridge dma_mask

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Oza Pawandeep <oza.oza@...adcom.com> wrote:
> it is possible that PCI device supports 64-bit DMA addressing,
> and thus it's driver sets device's dma_mask to DMA_BIT_MASK(64),
> however PCI host bridge may have limitations on the inbound
> transaction addressing. As an example, consider NVME SSD device
> connected to iproc-PCIe controller.
>
> Currently, the IOMMU DMA ops only considers PCI device dma_mask
> when allocating an IOVA. This is particularly problematic on
> ARM/ARM64 SOCs where the IOMMU (i.e. SMMU) translates IOVA to
> PA for in-bound transactions only after PCI Host has forwarded
> these transactions on SOC IO bus. This means on such ARM/ARM64
> SOCs the IOVA of in-bound transactions has to honor the addressing
> restrictions of the PCI Host.
>
> current pcie frmework and of framework integration assumes dma-ranges
> in a way where memory-mapped devices define their dma-ranges.
> dma-ranges: (child-bus-address, parent-bus-address, length).
>
> but iproc based SOCs and even Rcar based SOCs has PCI world dma-ranges.
> dma-ranges = <0x43000000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00>;

If you implement a common function, then I expect to see other users
converted to use it. There's also PCI hosts in arch/powerpc that parse
dma-ranges.

Rob