linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] PCI: endpoint: Cleanup EPC features

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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:52:41 +0800
From:   Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>
To:     Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        Alan Douglas <adouglas@...ence.com>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
Cc:     shawn.lin@...k-chips.com, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] PCI: endpoint: Cleanup EPC features


On 2019/1/14 19:14, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> The Endpoint controller driver uses features member in 'struct pci_epc'
> to advertise the list of supported features to the endpoint function
> driver.
> 
> There are a few shortcomings with this approach.
>    *) Certain endpoint controllers support fixed size BAR (e.g. TI's
>       AM654 uses Designware configuration with fixed size BAR). The
>       size of each BARs cannot be passed to the endpoint function
>       driver.
>    *) Too many macros for handling EPC features.
>       (EPC_FEATURE_NO_LINKUP_NOTIFIER, EPC_FEATURE_BAR_MASK,
>        EPC_FEATURE_MSIX_AVAILABLE, EPC_FEATURE_SET_BAR,
>        EPC_FEATURE_GET_BAR)
>    *) Endpoint controllers are directly modifying struct pci_epc
>       members. (I have plans to move struct pci_epc to
>       drivers/pci/endpoint so that pci_epc members are referenced
>       only by endpoint core).
> 
> To overcome the above shortcomings, introduced pci_epc_get_features()
> API, pci_epc_features structure and a ->get_features() callback.
> 
> Also added a patch to set BAR flags in pci_epf_alloc_space and
> remove it from pci-epf-test function driver.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> *) Fixed helper function to return '0' (or BAR_0) for any incorrect
>     values in reserved BAR.
> *) Do not set_bar or alloc space for BARs if the BARs are reserved
> *) Fix incorrect check of epc_features in pci_epf_test_bind
> 
> Tested on TI's DRA7xx platform and AM654 platform. Support for PCIe
> in AM654 platform will be posted shortly.
> 


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>   drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip-ep.c     | 16 +++-

Acked-by: Shawn Lin <shawn.lin@...k-chips.com>