On Monday 03 February 2014 11:42:22 Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Friday 24 January 2014, Tanmay Inamdar wrote:
> >
> >> +static void xgene_pcie_fixup_bridge(struct pci_dev *dev)
> >> +{
> >> + int i;
> >> +
> >> + /* Hide the PCI host BARs from the kernel as their content doesn't
> >> + * fit well in the resource management
> >> + */
> >> + for (i = 0; i < DEVICE_COUNT_RESOURCE; i++) {
> >> + dev->resource[i].start = dev->resource[i].end = 0;
> >> + dev->resource[i].flags = 0;
> >> + }
> >> + dev_info(&dev->dev, "Hiding X-Gene pci host bridge resources %s\n",
> >> + pci_name(dev));
> >> +}
> >> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(XGENE_PCIE_VENDORID, XGENE_PCIE_DEVICEID,
> >> + xgene_pcie_fixup_bridge);
> >
> > Shouldn't this be gone now that the host bridge is correctly shown
> > at the domain root?
>
> In inbound region configuration, whole DDR space is mapped into the
> BAR of RC. When Linux PCI mid-layer starts enumerating, it reads the
> size of BAR of RC and tries to fit it into the memory resource. First
> thing is that the outbound memory is not enough to map the inbound BAR
> space. This creates problem with the resource management logic and
> second thing is that, it is not required to map inbound BAR space RC
> bar as no one will be accessing it further.
>
> As Jason suggested, Bridge BAR's should be 0 size unless the bridge
> itself has registers. However this is not the case with XGene PCIe
> controller. It may have been inherited from the legacy design.
> 'arch/powerpc/sysdev/ppc4xx_pci.c' has similar fixup function.
Are you sure that is true for the root bridge as well? I don't
remember the details, but I though that for the host bridge,
we don't actually look at the BARs at all.
> > If you want to try out the I/O space, I'd suggest using an Intel
> > e1000 network card, which has both memory and i/o space. There
> > is a patch at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pci/msg27684.html
> > that lets you check the I/O registers on it, or you can go
> > through /dev/port from user space.
> >
> > I also haven't seen your patch that adds pci_ioremap_io() for
> > arm64. It would be helpful to keep it in the same patch
> > series, since it won't build without this patch.
>
> I will post the arm64 pci patch along with next revision of this
> driver. That will cover the 'pci_ioremap_io' as well.
Please note that today, Liviu Dudau has also posted patches for this,
so you should coordinate a bit.
Arnd
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