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Message-ID: <fa491b99-5e05-b436-9304-32baeb019750@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:39:35 +0000
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Gustavo Pimentel <gustavo.pimentel@...opsys.com>,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Cai Huoqing <cai.huoqing@...ux.dev>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>, Frank Li <Frank.Li@....com>,
        Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof WilczyƄski <kw@...ux.com>
Cc:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Pavel Parkhomenko <Pavel.Parkhomenko@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        caihuoqing <caihuoqing@...du.com>,
        Yoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@...esas.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 24/26] PCI: dwc: Set coherent DMA-mask on MSI-address
 allocation

On 2022-12-19 14:46, Serge Semin wrote:
> The MSI target address requires to be reserved within the lowest 4GB
> memory in order to support the PCIe peripherals with no 64-bit MSI TLPs
> support. Since the allocation is done from the DMA-coherent memory let's
> modify the allocation procedure to setting the coherent DMA-mask only and
> avoiding the streaming DMA-mask modification. Thus at least the streaming
> DMA operations would work with no artificial limitations. It will be
> specifically useful for the eDMA-capable controllers so the corresponding
> DMA-engine clients would map the DMA buffers with no need in the SWIOTLB
> intervention for the buffers allocated above the 4GB memory region.
> 
> While at it let's add a brief comment about the reason of having the MSI
> target address allocated from the DMA-coherent memory limited with the 4GB
> upper bound.

Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>

> Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@...kalelectronics.ru>
> 
> ---
> 
> Changelog v8:
> - This is a new patch added on v8 stage of the series.
>    (@Robin, @Christoph)
> ---
>   drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> index 3ab6ae3712c4..e10608af39b4 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/dwc/pcie-designware-host.c
> @@ -366,7 +366,16 @@ static int dw_pcie_msi_host_init(struct dw_pcie_rp *pp)
>   						    dw_chained_msi_isr, pp);
>   	}
>   
> -	ret = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
> +	/*
> +	 * Even though the iMSI-RX Module supports 64-bit addresses some
> +	 * peripheral PCIe devices may lack the 64-bit messages support. In
> +	 * order not to miss MSI TLPs from those devices the MSI target address
> +	 * has to be reserved within the lowest 4GB.
> +	 * Note until there is a better alternative found the reservation is
> +	 * done by allocating from the artificially limited DMA-coherent
> +	 * memory.
> +	 */
> +	ret = dma_set_coherent_mask(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(32));
>   	if (ret)
>   		dev_warn(dev, "Failed to set DMA mask to 32-bit. Devices with only 32-bit MSI support may not work properly\n");
>   

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