linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/13] comedi: ni_mio_common: Conditionally use I/O port or MMIO

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Date:   Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:45:16 +0100
From:   Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] comedi: ni_mio_common: Conditionally use I/O port
 or MMIO

On 13/09/2023 13:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2023, at 13:20, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> In a future patch, the port I/O functions (`inb()`, `outb()`, and
>> friends will only be declared in the `HAS_IOPORT` configuration option
>> is enabled.
>>
>> The "ni_mio_common.c" file contains calls to both port I/O functions and
>> memory-mapped I/O functions.  The file is `#include`d by "ni_atmio.c",
>> "ni_mio_cs.c", and "ni_pcimio.c" for the ni_atmio, ni_mio_cs, and
>> ni_pcimio modules, respectively.  Only "ni_pcimio.c" defines the
>> `PCIDMA` macro before including "ni_mio_common.c" and various bits of
>> code in "ni_mio_common.c" is conditionally compiled according to whether
>> that macro is defined or not.  Currently, the port I/O function calls
>> are compiled in regardless of whether the `PCIDMA` macro is defined or
>> not.  However, the fact is that the ni_atmio and ni_mio_cs modules will
>> never call the memory-mapped I/O functions, and the ni_pcimio module
>> will never call the port I/O functions.
>>
>> Calls to the port I/O and memory-mapped I/O functions is confined to the
>> `ni_writel()`, `ni_writew()`, `ni_writeb()`, `ni_readl()`, `ni_readw()`,
>> and `ni_readb()` functions which do a run-time test to decide whether to
>> call the port I/O functions or the memory-mapped I/O functions.
>> Conditionally compile two variants of the functions so they only call
>> the port I/O functions if the `PCIDMA` macro is undefined (for the
>> ni_atmio and ni_mio_cs modules), and only call the memory-mapped I/O
>> functions if the `PCIDMA` macro is defined (for the ni_pcimio module).
>>
>> Add a run-time check in the `ni_E_init()` function to return an error if
>> the comedi device has been set up to use port I/O if `PCIDMA` is
>> defined, or has been set up to use memory-mapped I/O if `PCIDMA` is not
>> defined.
>>
>> The changes make it possible to build the ni_pcimio module even if the
>> port I/O functions have not been declared.  (The ni_atmio and ni_mio_cs
>> modules do still require the port I/O functions to be declared.)
> 
> I think this all works, but there is probably a simpler way to
> achieve the same:
>   
>> +#ifdef PCIDMA
>> +
>>   static void ni_writel(struct comedi_device *dev, unsigned int data, int reg)
>>   {
>> -	if (dev->mmio)
>> -		writel(data, dev->mmio + reg);
>> -	else
>> -		outl(data, dev->iobase + reg);
>> +	writel(data, dev->mmio + reg);
>>   }
>>
>>
>> +#else /* PCIDMA */
>> +
>> +static void ni_writel(struct comedi_device *dev, unsigned int data, int reg)
>> +{
>> +	outl(data, dev->iobase + reg);
>> +}
> 
> We already have an abstraction for this using iowrite32(),
> which turns into either writel() or outl() depending on the
> argument, so you could just use pci_iomap() or ioport_map()
> to turn port numbers into tokens suitable for the common
> helper.
> 
>       Arnd

It would affect three modules, and there are similar changes that could 
be made to other modules, so I think I'll put that suggestion on hold 
for now.  I'd also like to get rid of the '#include "ni_mio_common.c"' 
nonsense at some point, but that's a big job!

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