Re: [PATCH] pci: Add support for creating a generic host_bridge from device tree

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On Tuesday 04 February 2014, Liviu Dudau wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 10:09:44AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 03 February 2014 22:17:44 Liviu Dudau wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:31:31PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > The aperture here reflects the subset of the
> > > > 4GB bus I/O space that is actually mapped into a CPU visible "physical
> > > > I/O aperture" using an inbound mapping of the host bridge. The physical
> > > > I/O aperture in turn gets mapped to the virtual I/O space using
> > > > pci_ioremap_io.
> > >
> > > Agree.
> > >
> > > > The difference between a bus I/O address and a logical
> > > > I/O address is stored in the io_offset.
> > >
> > > Not exactly. If that would be true that means that for an I/O range that
> > > start at bus I/O address zero but physical I/O apperture starts at
> > > 0x40000000 the io_offset is zero. For me, the io_offset should be 0x40000000.
> >
> > That's not how we do it on any of the existing host controllers.
> > Typically the io_offset is zero for the first one, and may be
> > either zero for all the others (meaning BARs get > 64KB values
> > for secondary buses) or between 64KB and 2MB (meaning each bus
> > starts at I/O port number 0).
> 
> In that case it is probably worth to rename my variable into phys_io_offset.
> 
> I need to go back over my driver code. My assumptions were probably wrong
> wrt to meaning of the io_offset.

Ok. I'd still call it 'base' rather than 'offset', although the meaning
isn't all that different.

> > But there should never be an IORESOURCE_IO resource structure that is
> > not in IO space, i.e. within ioport_resource. Doing an "adjustment"
> > is not an operation defined on this structure. What I meant above is that
> > the pci range parser gets this right and gives you a resource that looks
> > like { .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, .start = phys_base, .end = phys_base +
> > size - 1}, while the resource we want to register is { .flags = IORESOURCE_IO,
> > .start = log_base, .end = log_base + size -1}. In the of_pci_range struct for
> > the I/O space, the "pci_space" is IORESOURCE_IO (for the pci_addr), while the
> > "flags" are IORESOURCE_MEM, to go along with the cpu_addr.
> 
> The pci range parser gives me a range with .flags = IORESOURCE_IO for IO space. It
> does not convert it to IORESOURCE_MEM. Hence the need for adjustment.

Ah, I see that now in the code too. This seems to be a bug in the range parser
though: range->flags should not be initialized to
of_bus_pci_get_flags(parser->range).

	Arnd
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