linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Add PCIe I/O BAR memory mapping

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Message-ID: <0684fa31-1dfd-9f6c-762e-5811e6e9d5b9@deltatee.com>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:07:12 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>
Cc:     Yash Shah <yash.shah@...ive.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Add PCIe I/O BAR memory mapping



On 2019-10-24 10:51 a.m., Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
>> On 2019-10-24 3:14 a.m., Yash Shah wrote:
>>> For I/O BARs to work correctly on RISC-V Linux, we need to establish a
>>> reserved memory region for them, so that drivers that wish to use I/O BARs
>>> can issue reads and writes against a memory region that is mapped to the
>>> host PCIe controller's I/O BAR MMIO mapping.
>>
>> I don't think other arches do this. 
> 
> $ git grep 'define PCI_IOBASE' arch/ 
> arch/arm/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE            ((void __iomem *)PCI_IO_VIRT_BASE)
> arch/arm64/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE          ((void __iomem *)PCI_IO_START)
> arch/m68k/include/asm/io_no.h:#define PCI_IOBASE        ((void __iomem *) PCI_IO_PA)
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE     ((void __iomem *)_IO_BASE)
> arch/unicore32/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE      PKUNITY_PCILIO_BASE
> arch/xtensa/include/asm/io.h:#define PCI_IOBASE         ((void __iomem *)XCHAL_KIO_BYPASS_VADDR)
> $
> 
> This is for the old x86-style, non-memory mapped I/O address space the 
> legacy PCI stuff that one would use in{b,w,l}()/out{b,w,l}() for.
> 
> Yash, you might consider updating your patch description to note that this 
> is for "legacy I/O BARs (i.e., non-MMIO BARs)" or something similar.  That 
> might make things clearer.

Ah, right, yes, that would clear things up.

Logan