On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 09:44:17AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > On 2014/9/28 19:21, Liviu Dudau wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:16:12AM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote: > >>>>>> What I would like to see is a way of creating the pci_host_bridge structure outside > >>>>>> the pci_create_root_bus(). That would then allow us to pass this sort of platform > >>>>>> details like associated msi_chip into the host bridge and the child busses will > >>>>>> have an easy way of finding the information needed by finding the root bus and then > >>>>>> the host bridge structure. Then the generic pci_scan_root_bus() can be used by (mostly) > >>>>>> everyone and the drivers can remove their kludges that try to work around the > >>>>>> current limitations. > >>>> > >>>> So I think maybe save msi chip in PCI arch sysdata is a good candidate. > >>> > >>> Except that arch sysdata at the moment is an opaque pointer. I am all in favour in > >>> changing the type of sysdata from void* into pci_host_bridge* and arches can wrap their old > >>> sysdata around the pci_host_bridge*. > >> > >> I inspected every arch and found there are almost no common stuff, > > > > I will disagree here. Most (all?) of the structures that are passed as sysdata argument to > > Most. > > > pci_create_root_bus() or pci_scan_root_bus() have a set of resources for storing the MEM and > > IO ranges, which struct pci_host_bridge already has. So that can be factored out of the > > arch code. Same for pci_domain_nr. Then there are some variables that are used for communication > > with the platform code due to convoluted way(s) in which PCI code gets instantiated. > > Yes, currently some archs store MEM and IO resource in pci sysdata, and others not, move the MEM and IO > resource to pci_host_bride could make code become simple, we can clean up the resource list argument in > pci scan functions. > > > > > What I am arguing here is not that the arch equivalent of pci_host_bridge structure is already > > common, but that by moving the members that are common out of arch sysdata into pci_host_bridge > > we will have more commonality and it will be easier to re-factor the code. > > Now, I got it, thanks! > > > > >> and generic data struct should > >> be created in generic PCI code. > > > > Not necessarily. What I have in mind is something like this: > > This is a good idea, what I'm worried is this series is already large, so I think we need to post > another series to do it. I wasn't asking to do it here, I was just offering a suggestion (and sharing some experience) when it comes to handling msi chip in an arch independent way. > > > > > > - drivers/pci/ exports pci_init_host_bridge() that does the initialisation of bridge->windows > > and anything else that is needed (like find_pci_host_bridge() function). > > - arch code does: > > > > struct pci_controller { > > struct pci_host_bridge bridge; > > ..... > > }; > > > > #define to_pci_controller(bridge) container_of(bridge, struct pci_controller, bridge) > > > > static inline struct pci_controller *get_host_controller(const struct pci_bus *bus) > > { > > struct pci_host_bridge *bridge = find_pci_host_bridge(bus); > > if (bridge) > > return to_pci_controller(bridge); > > > > return NULL; > > } > > > > int arch_pci_init(....) > > { > > struct pci_controller *hose; > > .... > > hose = kzalloc(sizeof(*hose), GFP_KERNEL); > > pci_init_host_bridge(&hose->bridge); > > .... > > pci_scan_root_bus(...., &hose->bridge, &resources); > > .... > > return 0; > > } > > > > Then finding the right structure will be easy. > > > >> Another, I don't like associate msi chip and every PCI device, further more, > >> almost all platforms except arm have only one MSI controller, and currently, PCI enumerating code doesn't need > >> to know the MSI chip details, like for legacy IRQ, PCI device doesn't need to know which IRQ controller they > >> should deliver IRQ to. I would think more about it, and hope other PCI guys can give some comments, especially from Bjorn. > >> > > > > I wasn't suggesing to associate an msi chip with every PCI device, but with the pci_host_bridge. > > I don't expect a host bridge to have more than one msi chip, so that should be OK. Also, I'm > > thinking that getting the associated msi chip should be some sort of pci_host_bridge ops function, > > and for arches that don't care about MSI it doesn't get implemented. > > Currently, a property "msi-parent" was introduced in arm, and all msi chip integrated in irq chip controller will > be added to of_pci_msi_chip_list. PCI host driver find the match msi chip by its of_node. OK. But as you might have seen that still implies open coding a separate version of pci_scan_root_bus(). Best regards, Liviu > > Thanks! > Yijing. > > > > > Best regards, > > Liviu > > > > > >> Thanks! > >> Yijing. > >> > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> Liviu > >>> > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> I think both issues are orthogonal. Last time I checked a lot of work > >>>>> was still necessary to unify host bridges enough so that it could be > >>>>> shared across architectures. But perhaps some of that work has > >>>>> happened in the meantime. > >>>>> > >>>>> But like I said, when you create the root bus, you can easily attach the > >>>>> MSI chip to it. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thierry > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Thanks! > >>>> Yijing > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Thanks! > >> Yijing > >> > >> > > > > > -- > Thanks! > Yijing > > -- ------------------- .oooO ( ) \ ( Oooo. \_) ( ) ) / (_/ One small step for me ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html