On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:18:10AM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> Correct, you should not call release_mem_region_adjustable() the device
> region is not part of regular iomem resource as it might not necessarily
> be enumerated through known ways to the kernel (ie only the device driver
> can discover the region and core kernel do not know about it).
>
> One of the issue to adding this region to iomem resource is that they
> really need to be ignored by core kernel because you can not assume that
> CPU can actually access them. Moreover, if CPU can access them it is
> likely that CPU can not do atomic operation on them (ie what happens on
> a CPU atomic instruction is undefined). So they are _special_ and only
> make sense to be use in conjunction with a device driver.
>
>
> Also in the case they do exist in iomem resource it is as PCIE BAR so
> as IORESOURCE_IO (iirc) and thus release_mem_region_adjustable() would
> return -EINVAL. Thought nothing bad happens because of that, only a
> warning message that might confuse the user.
Just to see if I understand this correctly.
I guess that these regions are being registered via devm_request_mem_region() calls.
Among other callers, devm_request_mem_region() is being called from:
dax_pmem_probe
hmm_devmem_add
AFAICS from the code, those regions will inherit the flags from the parent, which is iomem_resource:
#define devm_request_mem_region(dev,start,n,name) \
__devm_request_region(dev, &iomem_resource, (start), (n), (name))
struct resource iomem_resource = {
.name = "PCI mem",
.start = 0,
.end = -1,
.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM,
};
struct resource * __request_region()
{
...
...
res->flags = resource_type(parent) | resource_ext_type(parent);
res->flags |= IORESOURCE_BUSY | flags;
res->desc = parent->desc;
...
...
}
So the regions will not be tagged as IORESOURCE_IO but IORESOURCE_MEM.
>From the first glance release_mem_region_adjustable() looks like it does
more things than __release_region(), and I did not check it deeply
but maybe we can make it work.
Thanks
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
